I've always strived to maintain a very healthy, friendly working situation, and lo and behold, it only took forty years, so the next sixty are looking bright. You're dealing with human beings on the cutting edge, and there's bound to be tension. You have to be make room for that, and you can't be too unreasonable, because that's everybody else's role.

Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.

I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not a monster; I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear.

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

I don't listen to music. I hate music.

Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly.

This is a very difficult thing to remain independent and persistent.