Funk, I don't think I have anything to do with funk. I've never considered myself funky.

I'll place my love beneath the stars.

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

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.

I never really got the book together for the thing, so I had all the songs and the characters. But by the time we'd gotten it on the road and I'd been doing it for 18 months, oh God, I couldn't wait to move on to something else.

I'm English. I can't accept happiness that easily. There's got to be a trick in there somewhere.