You gotta bear in mind, the youth - and this is just in Britain alone - have nowhere to go in the evenings. They've closed all the social centers. There's not even a patch of grass to kick a ball on.

What do you have to do to get people to take an interest? I'm not going to go out and cause a silly sex scandal just to sell a record!

I love boating - not flash, 'noisy go fast' nonsense, but the general relaxation of it. My wife and I love to get in our little Wellcraft and go as far out to sea as we can, hopefully beyond land. That is the best thing you can ever do. It clears your psyche.

If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible.

I'm not blowing my own trumpet here, but I made a rap song 20 years ago with Afrika Bambaataa.

What goes on in the world and who's defining what is right or wrong in anything? Is there a place in any of our existence where we need judgment any longer? But we should have empathy towards each other and break away from those categories that politics and religion keep throwing back at us.

For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive.