“This empty kitchen's whereI'd while away the hoursJust next to my old chairYou'd usually have some flowersThe shelves of booksEven the picture hooksEverything is goneBut my heart is hanging onIf th...”

“There's so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in different ones.”

“The drinking dens are spilling outThere's staggering in the squareThere's lads and lasses falling aboutAnd a crackling in the airDown around the dungeon doorsThe shelters and the queuesEverybody's ...”

“Im a maker of ballads right prettyI write them right here in the streetYou can buy them all over the cityyours for a penny a sheetIm a word pecker out of the printersout of the dens of Gin LaneIll ...”

“My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.”

“The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.”

“You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them.”

“Sometimes the gap between what you are and what you want to be is a little piece of paper called your college degree. So jump.”

“I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.”

“Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.”

“Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure. ”

“I think it's cool that London Fashion Week is about young designers trying wacky things.”

“You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar.”

“The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.”

“The string slices into the skin of his fingers and no matter how tough the calluses, it tears. But this beat is fast and even though his joints are aching, his arm's out of control like it has a mi...”