I was anorexic in the 60s and 70s, although it wasn't called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me if I looked very small and delicate, so food wasn't high on my agenda. But it is now.

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

I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, "the press."

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

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.

The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.

I do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.