People say that if you're still angry at 52, you're not an angry young man, just a grumpy old git.

I'm definitely obsessed about artists and the type of music and the playing and the tone and all that kind of thing - I'm not obsessed about what the best Beatles album is. I just think if The Beatles are great, they're great.

In the past we used to come over to see what was going on in London or Paris or Milan or wherever - it's pretty much the same stuff everywhere [now], and people are wearing the same things, because it's all instantaneous with the Internet.

So much is filtered by pop music today, because the music industry is driven by single, single, single, single, the next single, not the nurturing of artists and that kind of thing.

It is nice to make a record and people like it, and it's encouraging.

I don't like to get pigeonholed. I don't like it when people think they have you sewn up.

I suppose I was much more serious-minded in the '70s and '80s.