Living a very long time would be a very scary thing.

I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years.And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.

You swore you wouldn't shout. If it's not your punch, then it's your pout.

[Commercial] radio is absolutely the enemy of music. They are my sworn and mortal enemy, and I will have nothing to do with them.

Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love.

Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere.

I'd be very suspicious of anybody that seems to have to move to the next level of expression. I distrust that: now I'm writing a book, now I'm being an actor. It should be a natural thing. I think it's a natural thing for you to act. But I think that people that feel that, because they've written one maybe quite beautiful love song that equips them to play Romeo, is probably misguided.