I've learned to relax and be my present age and my present position. I feel comfortable on my mid-thirties. It doesn't seem such an alien place to be.

Radio in England is nonexistent. It's very bad English use of a media system, typically English use.

Comfort comes into your house first as guest, then as a host, then finally as the master.

1961 was when I was really into clothes. I left school at 15 and started copying a bloke who used to go up on the train to London with me; Leslie, I think his name was. He was like, top mod of his own area. He wore Italian jackets with white linen jeans. Boy, was that cool! I mean, that's in style now - it's very much the L.A. look. But he was wearing it then, and it looked supercool.

I got a bad migraine that lasted 3 years, and the pills I took made by fingers disappear.

When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.

We see each other [ with Iman Abdulmajid] a lot. I couldn't stand to be separated for months. It became quickly apparent to me that I needed to find a balance between my absolute work obsession and a private life that we could share without my disappearing all the time.