I had concussions as a kid playing football and basketball, and know what it feels like and to have someone say 'Just rub some dirt on it, and get back in there.'

I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.

I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.

I think the days of working with producers in the conventional sense are over for me.

That's the age that people are exploited, exploitable, and they're easily manipulated. The problem with me is, you can't manipulate me anymore. I've seen it, I know it, I've been there. And that's partially why, particularly in America, you see issues with artists as they get older. And they like to keep it a young man's game. Because that's how they can fudge around with the rules.

Being overly identified with [a certain period of time] becomes a noose around your neck, and people don't want you to grow up, they don't want you to change, they don't want you to evolve.

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.