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.

It can get boring. Not the playing the songs necessarily, or doing the clothes. You know, you need stimulus.

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.

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

I look for that stimulation constantly. I'm looking for inspiration and stimulation. Not bored with what we've done.

When I lived in a little flat in Pimlico in 1981, I'd write in the hallway. As you walked in, there was a tiny little recess type thing, hardly a hallway, really, and I'd sit there writing songs with my guitar.

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