I don't enjoy being a celebrity, I don't want any part of that or any part of that fame for fame... i'd actually rather die than be a celebrity slime!!!

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

I'm often prone to self-doubt about everything I do.

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

The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not.

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

Albums, with me, have never had an easy birth. Especially when all the songs are self-written songs.