All the things that you would have thought would have made me a professional A1 criminal... wrong. I decided that was too lazy and easy, and because of the way British society is, quite frankly you were denied an education, so I got one of my own.

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

Me, as a human, I never want to take away another human being's choices or lifestyles or anything.

Love is what you feel for a dog or a pussycat. It doesn't apply to humans.

Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness.

I was brought up and raised in Britain as a Labour man, and that quickly changed. And I find there are more working-class people in the Conservative Party than the Labour party.

I don't believe in pets. I like animals to be wild and free.