I loved Christmas. We had a really great time. But there wasn't - it was all - you had to be happy with, you know, an orange and a couple of walnuts, you know, in your stocking.

I've always felt quite like an outsider. I don't really belong in the mainstream, and I quite like that.

London was a real dump in the 70s, when it belonged to me and my friends, because, like most cities, you kind of hand them off. You're in charge for a bit and then you don't go out anymore. You say, "Oh god, it's going to be too crowded."

I used to sort of take the phone off the hook, you know, put my feet up and watch the TV until it was all over.

A devastating culmination of the elegant and the funky, a really sensational musician with enormous depth.

I'm very fussy about how my records sound, but I'm very aware that because of the way they sound, I will never be a big-selling, mainstream artist because the public has gotten conditioned to hearing pop music in a certain way. And I don't do it that way.

I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.