I'm glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did.

I love the Stones, but I've gone to a lot of gigs.

I've done everything I want to do and gone everywhere I want to go.

I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Warhol retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, too. My mother was very good at taking me to things like that. We lived in Reading, but we went on these cultural trips to London.

Working with David Bowie was very interesting, but I couldn't surrender to it. I should have let him produce a record for me, but I'm very perverse in some ways. He's brilliant, but the entourage were rather daunting.

Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.

I do take care of myself; I get my nails done, and I have a skin doctor, but that's it. I'm clean and groomed.