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.

I very rarely play the piano at home. Deliberately, so that when I do play it, I love it.

Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

I did some songs for Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby. I had done a jazz album of Roxy songs, and they used bits of it in the film. It would be nice to score a movie one day.

I met John Lennon and he was with his wife in Tokyo. I met him there.

All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. They dress up in these chains of gold, cars, girls and this and that, high-heeled shoes.