Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.

I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.

The battle with the bottle is nothing so novel.

What do we care, if the world is a joke? We'll give it a big kiss, we'll give it a poke. Death wears a big hat cause he's a big bloke.

I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time.

Life for me is about movement.

I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.