Blues was made for the recessed.

Everything I do - if I do it, is going to be personal.

If you think that UFOs will come and save you, don't be fooled. The Nazis invented UFOs.

You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory or go back to the desk.

The basis of everything that I plugged into when I was younger was blues, and it always stayed with me.

I'm really still a child of the Forties. I still think about it a lot, about the repercussions of armed conflict. Until 1953 we had rationing. We couldn't buy meat, we couldn't buy pleasurable goods like cigarettes and sweets. I didn't starve - my family were lucky - but I knew what it was like standing in line waiting for foodstuffs.

I don't think I've ever changed. I am only one person, it's just me. I'm confident and I'm quite happy with who I am, but it's my life and I'll be what I want.