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

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

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.

Any kind of history you read is basically the winning side telling you the others were bad.

I'm not able to tell you what the best song is yet, because there's more to come. I feel that in me. I can still feel the burning energy and the desire to create and create and create.

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

You have moments of grief in life, and if you can put pen to paper and capture that, that's something wonderful. I can revisit actual songs about past deaths, and I know that emotion is as true now as it was then.