I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

Let the children use it, let the children lose it, let all the children boogie.

I'm not a natural performer. I don't like performing very much.

In my madness I see your face in mine.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

There's a starman waiting in the sky, he'd like to come and meet us, but he thinks he'd blow our minds.

My father worked for a children's home called Dr. Barnardo's Homes. They're a charity.