Roy Harper

“Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt, then you've done it.”

“In cities, people go to work and all walk there together, like some arterial flow. And there's a certain desolation about it, an alienation that we all experience.”

“At school, I was always daydreaming and fiddling in inkwells, but I had to learn to grow up and become articulate. And doing that was what brought me into writing songs. It's like therapy fo...”

“In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to abuse each other, which we continue to do.”

“I wanted to modernize music, but more than that, to completely modernize people's attitudes towards life in general.”

“I'm an amalgam of the 19th-century romantics and the beat poets.”

“When I was 15, I was wearing sandals and corduroys, Guernsey, striped pullover, a beard that was hardly there, shades and a beret, and the goal was hanging out.”

“If humanity was still in the feral state, we wouldn't have any need for these huge conurbations that we have now, that have turned us into a different bunch all together. In the feral state...”