There's always darkness around, and if you focus on the darkness, you don't know where to go. But if you direct yourself at the light - there it is! It's right there.

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

Every artist has to make their own statements and they have to live with them.

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness but I can't speak on their behalf.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

When things are starting to work, you get up at five in the morning thinking, what are we going to do today? You stay up until one in the morning getting it done, and then you start the next day with the same energy, because it's working!