I don't like to be recognized on the street or in restaurants, and I don't like the whole celebrity thing.

Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they?

A ballad once in a while doesn't go amiss

Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the bottom line.

I think if I lost an edge, or the music didn't have the aggression or whatever, which is maybe one of the hallmarks of what I do, if indeed it is, I still think if you have something original in what you do and you keep doing that, then you're all right.

I've never been to a Hollywood party, although I imagine that it might be fun.

What characterized the whole punk scene for me in 1977 was there was no racism or sexism. It was an anarchy of -isms, and a matter of abolishing it all.