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

You can't be a mod and a rocker. You have to choose sides.

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.

I first came to London when I was 22 and working as a roadie. Having watched the 'News At Ten' all my life, I thought Big Ben was going to be massive, but I was underwhelmed.

Gone are the days when Virgin Records was owned by Richard Branson, a fan of music. Now they're all owned by some guy who bought it off some guy who bought it off some guy who wants a return on his investment.

I've got a fleet of cars and I've never had a driving license, ever.

When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.