When I write, there are times -- not always -- when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, ... I'll think, OK, what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve.

My so-called career is a haphazard thing.

It's like there was me, then the Beatles phase, and now I'm me again.

Going to do it to you sweet banana, like it's never been done, and we'll get high, high, high, in the mid-day sun.

Painting is similar to music. You get a couple or words or notes or chords that excite you, and you just follow them and add a bit more and see where it takes you. That's the thrill for me. It still is a thrill, which is amazing after all this time.

Alas, it looks like those unsubstantiated rumours about me are about to come true after all this time.

I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... .