Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I will defend myself.

The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records.

I think I have something valid to say. My words are my bullets. I like to brag that somehow I got it right.

I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons.

U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs.

We need wealthy dogs off the seats of power. They're taking us back to feudalism and I really don't want that. But I'm very far from being a socialist.

I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song. It may be easier to put out a fake jazz album, as Sting does from time to time.