ROBYN HITCHCOCK

If you do things out of time you're weird.

I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

You can't censor people's dreams.

I've been able to make a good living as a musician, but now it's time to do all the other stuff.

So whenever I hear The Beatles I always feel I've got a lot in common with everybody else.

Well, I've been painting for years. I just started doing a lot more in the last couple.

Production is something I've never come to terms with.

You realize that the first Bryan Ferry album was pretty good although at the time it seemed a bit cheesy.

Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.

One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.

After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.

Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.

I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.

As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.

I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.

Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.

Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign.

Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.

After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid.

When you think about great teams, The Beatles and the Pythons immediately spring to mind. The Pythons were as much a part of their time as The Beatles.

We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what.

As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end.

Everything is a reaction.

In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.