Peter Hammill

I do flip between being chatty and argumentative - and being a psycho-loner werewolf.

— Peter Hammill

He is trying to decide which of two daydreams he will inhabit.

— Peter Hammill

My dictum has always been: 'This show is happening just here, just tonight, with these people who are in this hall, and…

— Peter Hammill

I had a vision of myself as a novelist because that was where I could be serious. I couldn't with music.

— Peter Hammill

To be honest, I don't know really what I do on stage.

— Peter Hammill

Marc Almond has done a couple of covers, a few people in Europa have done them. I own all the publishing. It's…

— Peter Hammill

If you're going to have a heart attack, mine was the kind to have. I'm thankful that it hasn't affected my output…

— Peter Hammill

I'm not sure that Jesuits ever produce faithful Catholics. Because they're too fierce. It is Sturm und Drang, and it is guilt…

— Peter Hammill

So I, for one, didn't feel alienated by what happened in 77.

— Peter Hammill

Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination…

— Peter Hammill

The passage of time is a continuing thing. At 18, you're going to live forever, and you are definitely not at 52,…

— Peter Hammill

The crucial question one comes back to is the examination; without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society…

— Peter Hammill

There's always a Van der Graaf audience that wants to hear the band's sound. And totally fair enough. Why not? It's a…

— Peter Hammill

I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual…

— Peter Hammill

My mother was from West Bromwich; my grandfather was Pakistani. I had an aunt who started trying to trace the family tree…

— Peter Hammill

More people seem to know the Van der Graaf Generator material than my solo work - thanks, I suppose, to their parents'…

— Peter Hammill

It costs so much to promote something these days that almost always safety is the preferred option, reference back to things which…

— Peter Hammill

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

— Peter Hammill

I suppose, in a way, one could say I may be less interested in my career than the audience is. Not to…

— Peter Hammill

A definition is death. A definition is the answer to which you must look up the question in the back of your…

— Peter Hammill

Seriously, these days I tend to shut up in terms of external analysis and DO try to let things speak for themselves,…

— Peter Hammill

Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.

— Peter Hammill