You never really know what's going to happen. You never know what the audience is going to be like or how they're going to behave.

I am pleased the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of expatriate bankers and their girlfriends.

I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.

As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.

Rock 'n' roll and playing live is very addictive. But you have to really be careful, because you don't want to do it all the time. It's like when you are young and you think if you are not having sex you're wasting your time. But as you get older you realise everything has its place. It's the same thing with performing.... Performing is a great thing to do but you don't want to have to be doing it every night.

You've got to have fresh wardrobe. You can't just go out there looking like you did last time. That helps your transformation.

Rock has to absorb other rhythmic forms, because the underlying rhythm of music changes with fashion, and people like to move differently, and the underlying rhythms have to be the ones that people want to dance to.