I've never been asked to do a collaboration. I guess I just don't give off that come-and-get-me vibe. I wouldn't be adverse to doing one with Coldplay or U2 - anyone who sells 50 million albums.

If you don't want to be the biggest band in the world, you may as well pack it in.

Twenty years from now, will we listen to Lady Gaga? No. She might think she is making a stand for the freaks and the weirdos. But they're not going to have any decent music to play, are they?

Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard.

Don't lay a finger on me eyebrows or I'll sue you f...

Rock 'n' roll is about music. Music. Music. Music. It's not about you, it's not about me, it's not about Oasis. It's about the tunes.

I have to be myself, I can't be no one else.