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.

Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.

Rules are important, but they're temporary and they're always supposed to be changed.

If dolphins are so intelligent, how come they ain't got Walkmans?

Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman.

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.

For me, I'll always stand up for the disenfranchised, and I'm going to make a big point of that. I'm not a protest singer as such, you know? After the endurance course of the early 70s and 60s, I don't want to become one of them twats. But you got to learn to speak the truth.