I liked the Beatles but I wasn't mad on the Stones. I always thought they were a slight rip-off of Chuck Berry and some of the old blues people, and they never seemed to change. If people compare me to Jagger and the Stones I would be the one to be put down ... I've been far more progressive than any of them.

Our industry is full of all sorts of eccentricities and one of them is owning property.

But Portugal has a peaceful feel about it. I sit on the terrace overlooking the vineyard there and I feel cut off from the world. You need that sort of thing.

Celebrities meet a lot of people and we just can't maintain them all in our fuddled brains.

If you have got the public in the palm of your hand, you can be sure that is where they want to be.

It's the business I'm in, I can't say that signing things is the favourite part of my career but you know that it has to be done and that there is no pain involved.

If I'm going to represent God I have to do it the best I can.