I really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals.

The truest form of any form of revolutionary left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E.E. Cummings, and Allan Ginsberg's period. Excuse me but that was where it was at. The hippies, I'm afraid, don't know what's happening.

People look to me to see what the spirit of the Seventies is.

I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.

There were lots of nightly relationships. But the reason you don't want to make a commitment is not that you're such a freewheeling, adventurous person, it's because you're scared shitless that it will turn out like your mother and father.

Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don't think I'm camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage.

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.