The '40s were quite austere and super glamorous.

If you're into a certain band, you're into the way they dress.

If you're in music, you're in music, and if you're in music you just want to keep making records and playing. That's what it's about, isn't it? At least, that's what I always thought it was about, anyway. I don't think I could bear years and years off. Perhaps in me older, older age, maybe I will, for physical reasons. But to me you've always got to keep proving yourself. I never want to just sit on me laurels. You have to keep forging, to prove yourself to yourself. I always think, every time I start a record, this could be the best thing I've ever done.

In my old age, my mind gets more open, and I listen to so many different types of music and I guess that all reflects in my work.

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.

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

You can listen to music at any moment in the day or night. Which is great, but I think it kind of devalues it as well.