I have no musical talent at all. I was banned from music classes and told I would never be able to understand anything. I still don't think I can sing, but somehow I get away with it.

Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way.

I don't trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends' houses.

But for every hour and a half on stage, you have a five hour long bus ride, waiting for five hours at the airport, five hours of interviews... I know, it's part of the job, but that doesn't imply I have to like it.

The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about.

I've been in Hamburg for about ten years and I just feel at home.

The business of being a popular entertainer in England is just too hard.