I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly.

There is such a thing as good interference from your record label. I don't think I get enough interference from my record label.

I'm not going to Russia and tell them to go to hell and think - that's not the way things are done. You chip away at something and you hope that there will be dialogue and that the situation can get better. You don't just go in there with guns blazing and say well, to hell with you because they're going to say to hell with you and get out of the country.

I was never told a thing about sex. So I was very naive, as were my friends as well. But I - me so especially.

Getting paid for being laid, guess that's the name of the game.

I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.

And these [pharmaceutical] companies are still threatening to sue. And it's like, you know, do you not have a conscience? Do you not want the world to be a better place? You're still making a profit. How much more of a profit do you want to make?