I'm still looking to write a great song.... You always are. You know, you never think, 'Well, that's enough ... that's good enough.'

Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.

One of things about beards is that, when men reach a certain age, they'd like to see if they can grow one. It's a phenomenon I understand very well. After you get over the itchy face, you go, "Oh, I don't have to shave, that's cool." And then you move into the philosophical thing- people say, "You look weird, you have a beard." And you say, "No, actually, it's weird to shave." Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.

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.

I do like Eddie Van Halen as a player. He gets it right quite often.

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

I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do.