People would say to me, “Hey man, you look just like Paul McCartney”, and I'd say: “I wish I had his money!”

Every love song I write is for Linda.

I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity... to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.

We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us

There will be no wardrobe malfunction with me. I can promise you that.... I have nothing I will be exposing or taking off.

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.

People think once you get famous and rich you move out of the public sphere and you have nothing left to write about. I've heard that - Bruce Springsteen was this real street boy, now he's got this big house. How does that compute? If you don't look at the material side of someone's life, if you look at more the emotional side, there's always a wealth of stuff to write about.