Americans think that if you're popular, there must be something wrong with you.

I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.

Everybody who I ever cared about has told me that they like my music: Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Al Green, The Spinners, Smokey Robinson. Everybody that matters.

Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.

Around 1974, I graduated into the occult, and spent a sold six or seven years immersed in the Kabala and the Chaldean, Celtic, and Druidic traditions I also became fascinated with Aleister Crowley, the nineteenth-century magician who shared these beliefs.

The Daryls House thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way I record.

I have an English family and I've lived in England for years.