I've got so much I want to do, and not a lot of time to do it in. People say to me, "You really shouldn't do so many records", because it actually harms your career.

I'm the most indecisive person in the world. I'll do three versions of a song, then think, "Is the demo better?"

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

Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform.

I made a creativity out of that messiness.

I've always loved the rock & roll element to live shows, because whatever else I do, I'm basically a rock/pop performer, and that's what I like.

A lot of the early songs I wrote were about the experience of going to London and meeting rent boys and transvestites and drag queens. A lot of my early material is that: the wide-eyed adventures of a middle-class boy.