Manhattan's always fascinating, too, just a big, stinky, smelly conglomeration of numbered avenues and streets, but it's just got a vibe that's hard to beat. I shouldn't like it, but I do. I can't put my finger on it.

I don't really feel any different when I get up on stage.

Just follow your gut. If you seriously believe that something is the right thing to do, if you are so convinced that your stomach is knotting up every time someone suggests an alternative way of doing all this, take a deep breath and just say, "You're wrong."

The Vatican takes your breath away.

Humor is an amazing way to talk people down off a ledge.

Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.

In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.