I don't like walking in the street and seeing 30,000 copies of myself.

I don't believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with weapons. Gandhi is my life's inspiration: passive resistance. I don't want to live in the Thunderdome with Mad Max.

There are no limits to where our brains can take us. We are, if there be a God, God's gracious creation.

One of the most beautiful things about Britain, apart from the NHS and the free education, is the British Army.

I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just bubblegum, really.

As a young concert-going person, I was never enamoured with celebrities who would walk out to feature in certain songs and then walk off.

'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.