Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter, a major influence on my own music from the very start.

Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke - even death.

Any song I don't feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it's because I want to.

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

Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.

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.

I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.