I'm drawn between the light and dark.

If you come from art, you'll always be art.

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

Critics I don't understand. They get too intellectual. They're not very well-versed in street talk; it takes them longer to say it. So they have to do it in dictionaries and they take longer to say it.

A career of nearly 40 years, is not very long.

I went to a middle-class school, but my background is working class. I got the best of both worlds, I saw both classes, so I have a pretty fair idea of how people live and why they do it.

There was a time in America not long ago when rock 'n' roll was called race music, and white kids who wanted to go see Chuck Berry were completely forbidden.