I'm basically a control freak. It's not because I want to be. I'm not at all into the power play that's involved in it.

This was absolutely an attack on [British Prime Minister] Tony Blair, principally, and the perspective which is really predominant in Europe right now that he's not questioning enough of Mr. Bush's policies.

I was supposed to be a real Thatcherite. Just by dint of being a first-generation immigrant and having not had money, and then suddenly having it - and getting on planes and going to Ibiza and sitting around in thongs. But actually nothing I was writing or doing was even vaguely Thatcherite.

My music is some of the most honest music that's been released and I think that's why people buy it.

I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway.

When you shake you ass, they notice fast. And some mistakes were built to last.

I couldn't change anything without changing the end position, and I'm perfectly happy now. So whatever I feel in some sense may have been a mistake in the past is, in another sense, not a mistake, because it's left me here.