I'm 34 now, I like to say 35 because it makes me look better for my age, and I have to keep a little bit of a profile so that every three years if I do put a record out, I don't have to substantiate where I've been for three years and why the silence and the sort of false mysterioso.

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?

One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the whole planet in our hands.

Being on tour sends me crazy, I drink too much and out comes the John Mcenroe in me.

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

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.

I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that-stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy with the Pretenders...I think domesticity certainly doesn't make it easy to write, you know, because you've got a lot of distractions and I think a writer is always looking for distractions.