Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.

I think people are just really disappointed, disappointed with Blair as well, who's just like Bush's lapdog. I think everyone's just disillusioned with politics in our country, and it must be the same in your country.

I think the world is really small today, and fashion, from that end of it, it's instantaneous everywhere.

I'm so lucky, I'm just really grateful for what I've got around me - children and my wife and everything else.

I could write songs about politics, but I'm conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago.

I love soul music, that's my real love in life and in whatever shape or form it is.

I love the Kinks, but I like all sorts of music. If I stay at home at night and play records, I just go through the whole spectrum, really. I just love music.