But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.

I could never, ever talk to my father. I really loved him, but we couldn't talk about anything together. There was this really British thing that being even remotely emotional was absolutely verboten.

Never bored, so I'll never get old

The people who don't know so much about me regard me more sexually.

In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it's the recording or the performance side.

I once asked [John] Lennon what he thought of what I do. He said 'it's great, but its just rock and roll with lipstick on'.

You go through stages where you wonder whether you are Christ, or just looking for him.