If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything.

I don't want a Jennifer Lopez wedding or anything like that. A commitment ceremony would be a nice thing to do.

I'm 57, I can't look like a 30-year-old. You try to hold age at bay, but there comes a point when you just have to give up gracefully.

This overload is edging me further out to sea, I need to put some distances between overkill and me.

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

I'm very relaxed. I have a family, I have a partner of 20 years, I have a wonderful life; nothing could be better.

I get upset when people knock hip-hop, because I can absolutely see the musicality in it. These days, when I'm listening to records by hip-hop artists, I hear the production. It's just astounding how great the productions have become.