I’ll be quite frank with you — I didn’t know about Hunger Games — so when I’m telling kids and they say, ‘Who are you playing?’ and I say Cinna, they go, ‘Oh you’re playing the gay guy.’ That was an actual answer. I’ve never brought that up yet. That’s how they perceived it. So I thought about it, and I read the book and I don’t see that he is or isn’t [gay]. He’s a designer, he’s a stylist, he has gold eyeliner—that doesn’t mean anything either way.

If you look at the guys in the '70s, like Led Zeppelin, they had bigger planes than we do, they had more money. But they weren't singing about it.

I'm always sort of reflecting on what I do on what I've done. Usually before I make a new album, I'll listen to the previous albums just to see where I've been.

I had no idea 'The Hunger Games' was so big. I didn't even know the book. I had been living under my own rock.

(On being asked if he preferred to be a rock god or sex god) I am neither. My favourite role is father.

It's a trip to have a Greatest Hits record. It's a trip.

I'm really happy about American Woman, it brought the Guess Who back. They started gigging again and got their song out on commercials.