In terms of love, you're not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I'm a very tragic person. But there's always an element of humour at the end.

I'm possessed by love - but isn't everybody?

They wouldn't let us into Russia. They thought we'd corrupt the youth or something.

People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. F**k them, darling. I say what any decent poet would say if you dared ask him to analyze his work: If you see it, dear, then it's there. ... I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics. ... I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.

I want it all and I want it now.

I'm a very emotional person, a person of real extremes, and that's often destructive both to myself and others.

One year of love is better than a lifetime alone.