People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other.

You gotta bear in mind, the youth - and this is just in Britain alone - have nowhere to go in the evenings. They've closed all the social centers. There's not even a patch of grass to kick a ball on.

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

I'm not going to pontificate and tell you to execute your government at dawn, but it wouldn't be a bad idea.

Isn't it odd I've made some friends in the Republican Party, but that's in spite of the fact that I cannot agree with not any one single thing they stand for. That's the irony in the joy of being a human being in that we don't resent each other for our different thought processes, but anything that offers the attitude to me of "I'm going to stop you because that offends my religion", then I'm going to stop them. So I have one more note against that ideology, and the idea of a real estate agent running the universe is just not acceptable.

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.

What do you have to do to get people to take an interest? I'm not going to go out and cause a silly sex scandal just to sell a record!