I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.

In Genesis it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief.

I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

I'd always thought the Rats were good fun but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.

Well Jeff Buckley for me is one of the greatest singers I've ever heard. And the reason why is he has an amazing range amazing emotional power in his voice. And the music he put around it also just had this passion and this soul to it and this spirit to it that very few artists have and he passed at a very young age.

The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.

You live in a deranged age more deranged that usual because in spite of great scientific and technological advances man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.