When I'm a man, I will be an astronaut, and find Peter Pan on the second star on the right.

I love comedy. I like to think that there's a sense of humor in some of my music - obviously not all of it.

Bang goes another kanga on the bonnet of the van

What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.

You're never really happy. I'm certainly not. That's a good thing. It means you're always striving to do better. You hope the next piece will be better.

Nobody really knows, do they? They told Stephen Hawking he only had a year left to live and how many years ago was that? You can't know it all.

Some of the best pop music ever has come out of the States.