Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.

You wouldn't find a Joni Mitchell on 'X Factor;' that's not the place. 'X Factor' is a specific thing for people that want to go through that process - it's a factory, you know, and it's owned and stitched-up by puppet masters.

Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.

When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school.

I like where I live here, in London.

I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.

I don't have any interest to go to Israel. I don't think I'd ever have a cause to go.