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.

The Internet is merely a new means of communication, that's all it is. It serves the purpose of getting information, which it is fantastic at. I mean, I live by the Internet in terms of research and it's incredible - there's nothing that you can't find out about. It's not stopped me going to bookshops but I must say that I don't go into as many because any book I want.

I'm still younger than Jagger... Most people are.

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

I had a fantasy that i'd drift up to Scotland and spend my life as a faux bodhisattua.

I think the first song I ever wrote ... was called "Can't Help Thinking About Me." That's an illuminating little piece, isn't it?

The younger people get into the lyrics in a different way; there's much more of a tactile understanding, which is the way I prefer it.