One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

I'm often reading a magazine and hearing about someone's new record, and I think: "Oh, boy, that's gonna be better than me". It's a very common thing.

That's not really important what religion people are attached to, because by the same argument I have a lot of Christian friends and Moslem friends. It's just happened that I do have a lot of relatives and friends who are Jewish.

But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.

My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.

Everybody's talking about the President, we all chipped in for a bag of cement.

I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.