OK, I've had a life of sort of success, some people know who I am but a lot of people don't. I feel the need to change that still.

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.

In a nut shell, air travel is the worst part about touring.

I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music.

There are so many times in one's life, when one feels he has nothing more to offer. But no, my river has not run dry.

My activism was, and is, unknown, unannounced, but somehow effective.

It's more important what you leave to people on this planet. I want my legacy to exist now, currently, not after I'm gone.