I love the sound of breaking glass Especially when Im lonely I need the noises of destruction When theres nothing new.

So you can be about your business, and then on it comes again. And this time you're ready, and you've got a wine glass or something. And you put the glass up to the wall, and you can hear through the wall a little bit more of the song - maybe just the middle bit this time. You know, you managed to get in a little bit of the end. And so it goes on until - because you just got to - you really just want to sing it.

In the '70s, you had to come up with an album every year whether you were ready or not.

The older I get, there doesn't seem to be anything remotely more interesting than talking about love and the lack of it and what happens when it's taken away from someone who's had it.

It's like a little folk song. I think it might've been Harry Belafonte or someone like that who did it. And "Merry Christmas, Everybody" by Slade, which is a rock group - a rock-pop group who are very big over there.

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

When somebody like Elvis Costello comes along, anybody can make a good record with him.