I'm actually doing what I want with my life. I do sometime think I could just shut up and rest on my laurels and say: you know what guys, I'll operate out of the pocket you put me in.... but no way! No way I'm gonna do that! I'd just get bored stiff the first minute.

At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.

It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.

Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.

It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.

There are a lot of artists who haven't lost anything to domesticity. In my case, it probably did happen.

I think the French girls are fabulous.