I'm not a religious person but I do like the idea of Sunday as a day set apart from the rest of the week. It's nice to have a period of reflection and have time to think about things.

A Conservative government is necessary. There is no credible alternative.

I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do.

Anyone who thinks they're sexy needs their head checked.

One of the problems of our modern world is that there's a lot of things to work through, but, at some point, everybody should take a pause from that and make something, so that it's not just all one-way traffic.

I'd never really wanted to have a really 'private' life before. But when somebody starts delving into it and printing details through the tabloids for shagging people you shouldn't have shagged, then that probably made me shy away a bit more from giving too much away.

I guess I'm fairly insistent and maybe consistent. If I decide I'll do something, I generally will.