I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it.

I'm glad I've given up drugs and alcohol. It would be awful to be like Keith Richards. He's pathetic. It's like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go onstage and look young.

I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano.

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

Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids, in fact it's cold as hell.

Until I can visualise what the lyrics are about and see the story or whatever, I can't hear the melody.

There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line at goats.