Noise is an easy thing to hide behind. If you make a lot of noise and shout behind that, nobody can tell what you're singing.

You try and imagine what it must have been like to first see something moving on a screen. It must have blown your mind, because up to then life went by and there was no way to capture it. You could only get one instant and you didn't get the movement. So it's like having a bit of control over time really, because it's happening in real time or what seems to be real time, and then you can play it backwards and you can watch things again and again.

You get to a certain age and you just want to prove that you can still rock - that you've still got it.

I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn't it? That's the place where your dreams will come true. It's an act of faith now; they think that's going to sort things out.

I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.

I don't think people should abuse the fact that they are in showbiz. You still have to be human. I think that's the point. Showbiz is about showing human things - just amplified, that's all. And when it gets too much into, "Hey, we're part of the showbiz club and we can do what we want," it turns me off and I hate it.

I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.