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.

It's nice to collect stamps, but if it becomes obsessive, and you start stealing for your stamps, it becomes too much.

When we heard we were topping the bill over James Brown we couldn't believe it. We tried for two days to get it changed round - I mean you can't follow an act like that.

People don't bother to check with anything anymore. They just like to speculate in print. We like fact-checking!

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

Of course, I do occasionally arouse primeval instincts, but I mean, most men can do that. They can't do it to so many. I just happen to be able to do it to several thousand people. It's fun to do that.

That's one of the good things about a lot of the young British bands, they are mixing all styles of music. I think that's very good because that's very now.