It's a petty thing, but I wouldn't join the Scouts when I was a kid, 'cause you had to swear allegiance to the queen. I'm just not a royalist. I think it's idiotic, a hereditary principle.

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere.

The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty.

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

I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic.

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