Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, 'that’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.'

Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records.

In the '50s you weren't taught about sex whatsoever. It was never just talked about. People used to snoop behind their curtains and look at the neighbors. And if a girl became pregnant in your part of the world, she was shipped off to the countryside.

I don't think there can ever be too many messages about AIDS. If you stop the education process, then people are going to think the problem is all over and done with. They'll think that it's OK to go and have sex again. Education is essential, especially among young people.

I loathe celebrity. I can't stand it.

I don't have a computer. I am the Luddite of rock'n'roll, I don't have a portable phone. I write things down.

I've reached the stage of my life where learning is so important to me. I go through the past enough when I play my old songs on stage. And I don't mind doing that. But I want to think about the future.