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

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.

There's always something in most world folk musics that always seems connected; whether it's a bagpipe or a tambura, there's always some sort of drone instrument, and there's always percussion.

The Beatles changed the world. They certainly changed my world, and many, many other individuals as well.

When recording, whatever you first think about, you come out with something totally different at the end of it. Whatever plans you have you throw away, because it's always going to end up sounding pretty different from what you initially thought of. I probably only had about five or six songs when I started, and it just sort of flowed from that.

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

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