I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'

London's tempo is 122.86 beats per minute.

PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows.

All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.

Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.

As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn't have the same meaning. The attitude, though, is still very much alive - and it still informs other kinds of music.

I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.