I like most kinds of music. So I haven't got a bag, as they say... except the big black one in the hall outside.

I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.

You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.

We don't eat anything that has to be killed for us.

Bach was so mathematical and I liked this idea that you could have one instrument going, 'One, two, three, four', and then you have another instrument going, [double time] 'One, two, three four', and another instrument going, [doubled again] 'One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four', so you could add twos and fours and eighths, and that happens a lot in Bach.

Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared.

We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I've gone beyond that, and that it was immature to be so prejudiced and believe in all the stereotypes.