The difference between me and other people in my generation is instead of saying the Internet's killing the record business, I say, 'Who cares about the record business, the Internet is enhancing music.

Nobody's going to sell 10 million records by not working hard.

As a singer, I float around. I'm kind of scatty, bouncing around a lot. I try to adapt to what's going on around me in the song and the arrangement.

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.

If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says?

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

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