I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.

Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.

You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.

It's fine to indulge yourself so long as you don't try and foist it on the rest of the world.

Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing - the best writing is complex ideas communicated concisely. And music - if it's a good tune, make sure people can bloody hear it!

For me upward social mobility is possible through talent and hard work and is a glowing endorsement of the benefits of living in a modern capitalist society. It's not so much evidence of a meritocracy, as evidence of healthy nepotism. Nepotism is at the core of a good group dynamic. A good group dynamic is at the core of rock'n'roll.

I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.