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.

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

Let's face it, I ain't ever gonna be the best singer in the world, or the best anything.

Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on.

I keep falling off the edge of the stage because I can't see it. I can't see my wrinkles in the mirror either, though.

'Lollipop Opera' is the backdrop to Finsbury Park. A place that is very thriving, interracial and lot of music stores, Greek, Turkish, all sorts of immigrant music. It's utter Englishness. It blends the Jamaicans, the Irish. It's like what Jim Reeves did with American country music.

I don't understand the art of compromise, and it's a shame the politicians don't understand that as well, you know, we might have a better, clearer world. But then saying that, we might also get a lot of Donald Trump's running left right and centre.