Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap.

I'm a great songwriter, but I'm not the most talented musician.

I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it.

I've always been into guitars. We want to put keyboards on, but keyboard players don't look cool onstage, they just keep their heads down. There has never been a cool keyboard player, apart from Elton John.

Writing songs, that's what gets me going. Not the drugs or the sex or the rock'n'roll behaviour, it's the music.

Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years.

Drugs is like getting up and having a cup of tea in the morning.