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

You can't put a load of rockstars up on a stage and expect to wipe out global poverty. That's ludicrous.

When I was 16 I'd watch 'The Godfather,' but I didn't think, 'Right, I'm going to go down the barber's and get some protection money off him.'

They should be shot. (on the Backstreet Boys)

We dragged English guitar music out of the gutter.

I've grown to love California: It's the dream of every English musician to come here and work in the sunshine. To walk up Sunset Boulevard, knowing you're going to make music - that's it.

I don't mind One Direction. They're harmless, aren't they?