"We knew we did not want to record at Impulse Studios again, after the experience of recording in a 'real' studio in London for the Radio One session we did"

"It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom"

"TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains"

"If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting"

"It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on"

"I love listening to new stuff, at home in LA I always have the radio on to hear what is happening"

"I think I owe thanks to the people who have listened to me over the years, who tuned in on the radio. They have given me a warmth and loyalty that I've never been able to repay. The way they have reached out to me has certainly been the highlight of my life"

"I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day"

"I think some people record songs and make records a certain way to cater to radio. If you're born to make commercial music that's cool. But if you're born to not make commercial records, maybe you're meant to cater to another market"

"I mean, if you turn on the radio, love is 90 percent of the music"

"Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity"