I'm not a royal family watcher.

The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.

You tell yourself that you're not auditioning but of course you work like crazy, and you prepare like mad. And you think, "Well, I won't get that job. But maybe they'll have another job sometime, and they'll remember that I was good."

Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect. Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.

I like American black soul music, that was my first big enthusiasm.

The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it.

The job is the same - to attempt to make it sound like you've never said it before and as if it's just occurred to you. And that's the same whether you're on camera or whether you're on stage in a room full of people.