I don't know anything about the Appalachian mountains or cowboys and Indians or anything. I just made it up.

I don't think of myself as a legend. I just love what I do. I love playing with my band, I love going to beautiful places and give people good music. I love what I do, I`m very lucky man.

When a war is over I think it's a cowardly thing to leave the war behind you in minefields that hit women and children and the most vulnerable. Imagine the war is finished and you go to work and there are snipers shooting at you. Imagine taking your kids to the beach and you find that the beach is blowing up beneath you. Like there's nowhere safe.

There was one moment where they were riding their little ponies in Scotland, and Stella said to me: 'Dad! You're Paul McCartney, aren't you?' 'Yes darling, but I'm Daddy really'.

Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.

What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.

Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.