I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person.

Of course I have regrets; I'm not stupid.

I'm alive today, I'm well, I'm working, I'm still creative. What more can I say, really?

I have to watch out for being lazy.

I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.

I don't talk about my private life.

I wish people didn't just think of me in the '60s. I'm not any era.