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?

I'd really rather just be the anonymous Mr. Nobody who I always was up until I first went onstage. I liked that.

Things go in waves, and I might make a record every three years. That's enough for me, that satisfies me. And it satisfies the so-called public, because they don't really need a record every year. They don't even want one. There's other stuff out there for them to listen to.

How much did you get for your soul?

I'm all for bootlegging. A record costs $20 . . . who can afford that?

If you're purely derivative in what you do, then you could very easily get lost along the way. But for me, I might want to even do something else for a while.

I don't really go out to clubs, but if I did, I'd just want to go rock out with my mates or whatever.