I thought, I'm in my late 50s now, am I ever gonna get the chance to do another album again?

A lot of youth today have become very narrow and conservative in a way, whereas we in the older generation are kind of living it.

I have a long history with Soho: even when I was at art college, I came down to Soho to work in the summer.

I made a creativity out of that messiness.

I became the magnet for a lot of scary aggression. Cos it's scary Up North!

Sometimes, with autobiographies, it turns into a bit of score-settling. And looking back, I don't feel the way I did then, and you kind of grow up and let it go behind you.

As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV.