I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.

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.

Love's like a junkie, addiction's a fact. Passion's a monkey, you can't keep off your back.

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?

I'm addicted to working. I mean, I have a list of 100 countries I want to play in. I'm basically killing myself by travelling so much, for no reason whatsoever.

This is a tremendous assest for the club, a tremendous headache lifted from our shoulders, really.

I've always enjoyed and loved playing live. I relish and cherish it more than anything else because you never know what the performance is going to be.