"I switched to painting with my left hand to be in better company."

“WHEN YOU LEAVE YOUR TYPEWRITER YOU LEAVE YOUR MACHINE GUN AND THE RATS COME POURING THROUGH.”

“What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“When I was 16 I got a school holiday job at Minton's pottery factory in Staffordshire, packing plates. For a month's work, I was paid £44. Everything I now know about the birds and the bees, I learnt there.”

Source : Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

“I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril.”

“Jazz isn't what you do; it's how you do it.”

“Fire, as we have learned to our cost, has an insatiable hunger to be fed. It is a nonliving force that can even locomote itself.”

“People can say the money doesn't really matter but it does show you how much a club respects you.”

Source : Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2004.

“Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading.”