What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.

The one hit song that I have tremendous gratitude for is Boots, because it has a life of its own. It's like being identified with a brand name.

These boots were made for walking, that's just what they'll do. One of these days these boots are going to walk all over you.

The Columbia years are the most sentimental for me. My parents were together through most of that time and we were a happy, sort of normal family.

Morrissey wrote to me and said, I have a song for you and if we release it as a single, you'll be on the charts for the first time since 1972, I said, what time, where?

What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.

It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.