It must be quite difficult if you have a father who's sort of known. On the other hand, you can get a job in his band.

And Mary J. Blige, she's got all these fur coats and hats and stuff. She's good; I like her.

I suppose young people think football is glamorous - soccer - it's big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari.

At home I don't really have any drum machines or anything like that, I just have a piano and a cassette machine, an old-fashioned one, an old relic which I've always used.

But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.

You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?

It's fabulous when you do that, when you discover somebody who you like, when you kind of feel those feelings, even though he articulates them better.