Greed, it ain't going anywhere. They should have that in a big billboard across Times Square. Without people you're nothing.

The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to.

I want to grow up with my audience. I don't expect to be getting through to the younger pop crowd. I learned that from Paul Simon.

I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.

My motto is, 'What's the hurry?' I'm trying to get it across to the modern world that we need to sit around and think a little bit more.

When I started, they told me I only needed 3 chords and the truth... It turned out I could manage with 2 and some vague ideas.

Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control and it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realised that you either became a power or you were crushed