Samba rhythm is a great one to sing on, but it's also got some other suggestions in it, an undercurrent of being primitive - because it is a primitive African, South American, Afro-whatever-you-call-that rhythm. So to white people, it has a very sinister thing about it.

It's hard to believe that you did so many drugs for so long. That's what I find really hard. And didn't really consider it. It was eating and drinking and taking drugs and having sex. It was just part of life.

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

It's heartening to return to live music, heartening for people like me in a band. It's a very traditional thing to return to. It re-validates the original form that we fell in love with.

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 don't watch much ESPN. Unless they have soccer on.

The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.