I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
People say that if you're still angry at 52, you're not an angry young man, just a grumpy old git.
I'm always looking for something. Not in an unhappy way. I just like to try different things. I don't want to be morbid, but I'm not getting any younger.
There is a shy side to me that evaporates when I play on stage, and I like that. I think it's another facet of my character, and I need to do that.
I'm not big on rap, to be honest. I just don't get it. It's angry people shouting. I like a song, melodies, people singing.
I don't think about what I can't do or what I shouldn't be doing. I just think there are endless possibilities musically, really.
I'm so lucky, I'm just really grateful for what I've got around me - children and my wife and everything else.
I am aware of the words 'national treasure' being attached to me occasionally. It just makes me feel old.
Reality TV is here, it's been here really since the Carol Levis Discovery Show in 1957. It's never changed. It just looks a bit different.
Because the pop industry is cruel, if you don't do everything the label wants you to do, it has an army of other people waiting to do it.
Doing things in my day was simple: you either signed to a big label or you signed to a very small label, and you worked with that one, and then they eventually signed you on to a big one.
Most musicians count at the beginning, and never count and talk to their musicians after that. They only talk to them at the end of the song. But I would count with them and talk.
The majors, they have to control the distribution, the record outlets, the radio and, in some cases, even the venues. And downloading and pirating have also put pressure on the majors.
When I was recording from '70 to '82, I always played piano and laid the tracks down. But I used to talk to the other musicians while the track was playing.
