Quotes from Bryan Ferry

I very rarely play the piano at home. Deliberately, so that when I do play it, I love it.

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

In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue.

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.

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

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

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

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

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

Loneliness is a crowded room, Full of open hearts turned to stone, All together all alone

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

Loneliness is a crowded room.

Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them.

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.

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.

Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.

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

I loved music from the age of eight. Jazz and blues. But also Little Richard and Elvis Presley.

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.

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

It must be quite difficult if you have a father who's sort of known. On the other hand, you can get a job in his band.