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

In the early-'60s, when you look at that period of time - up to the mod time - when everybody was wearing skinnier suits and skinny lapels and skinny ties - that came out of the States, and that was quite cool.

Sometimes you're ahead of the game and sometimes people don't get it and that's just one of those things you have to accept and carry on.

My own personal theory is that all popular music, in whatever form it is, to me, it all comes from Africa. Whether it's filtered through America or whatever - African-American. But I still think there's something in that roots music that's very, very African, and I think that's what unites people.

When I'm dead I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do.

I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.

There's this British elegance that we, at times, have really missed in the States. We've always been more of a sportswear culture.