Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn't find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know.

An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.

It sounds strange for me to be saying this, but I've come around to the idea that sex really is for procreation.

This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I'm discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it's a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you.

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.

It's taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man's voice. Because I only liked old men's voices. As a kid, I didn't like pip-squeaked singers.