Fame is something that is bestowed upon you because of success. Success is something you have to chase.

There's not enough good things in the world.

Music is a thing that changes people's lives. It has the capacity to make young people's lives better.

Frontmen come alive when they come onstage.

It's the first time I'm going to be on my own this Christmas and I'm really looking forward to not having any cards or decorations up. So I'll be in London, sit on my couch, arms folded, curtains drawn, having a drink.

I'll do one eventually as life's too short and none of us is getting any younger. I'd like to make one while I still look good and before I look like Phil Collins, which, eventually, I will.

I know there's bands that might write something that sounds like The Smiths, and they'll go, 'Oh, it sounds like The Smiths, we've got to make it sound not like The Smiths.'