"Ageism" or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other cultures. And no one says it about authors or poets or filmmakers. "Oh, they're too old to make films or write books." You know what I mean?

I'm not big on rap, to be honest. I just don't get it. It's angry people shouting. I like a song, melodies, people singing.

When I got into the Beatles, I must have only been about six or seven but old enough to take notice. We used to have an old radiogram which, for readers of a certain age, was like a big cabinet thing with a record player inside it.

Being a musician is a noble profession.

I've not had Botox, no.

It's a global fashion thing; because of the Internet it has gotten really small. It's cluttered, but it's gotten small.

I'm still a mod, I'll always be a mod, you can bury me a mod.