People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.

If you are British, you soon get used to people not loving you. The Irish remind us of offenses from 100 years ago. Perhaps we should react to what the French did to us even longer ago.

In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.

I don't hate journalists. You can't hate a class of people. It's wrong to say that. But I do think they're a bit like poison. Never trust them. You can't trust them as a class of people. It's their job not to be trusted.

I don't think people care about the mechanics of songwriting.

You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant

Any performer is one person privately and then he's another person when he steps on the stage.