Bryan Ferry

“Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.”

“The quality of the writing, really. Simple as that. Beautiful words. It's very nice as a singer to do great songs, which have wonderful lyrics and strong feelings underneath the song.”

“I'd love to follow the Tour de France one day. It's a really exciting spectacle. I've only seen it once as it was coming into Paris and that was very exciting for me. I have memories of that.”

“I don't do interviews at all when I'm on tour, so this time, on a day off, I'll do that kind of thing a little bit. I don't do big promotion schedules, not when I'm touring.”

“But I don't write so much now, because they're too painful.”

“But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.”

“Oh yes, much, because music is just something that comes to you. You don't question it.”

“It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.”

“I don't think I've ever played the Olympia before, but I'm not totally sure.”

“I suppose young people think football is glamorous - soccer - it's big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari.”

“I mean, there are so many of his songs that I like that I could easily do that one day.”

“But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.”

“When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move.”

“I didn't really want to give up music.”

“You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?”