Soho has got to be at its centre. It's got such a history for rock, pop, poetry, jazz, writers, all those things, and I think it should be valued as such, and protected as this centre for bohemia.

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

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

I can't read music and I'm crap at learning lyrics. Especially since the accident I have memory problems. I can't remember words, names, places.

I'm always aware of mortality.

Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.

Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.