It's just something internal that says, 'I've got to do this now. This is what I'm doing now.'

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

Today, we're even into the whole sweat thing. They'll wear a [suit] jacket like this, but they'll wear it with sweat pants and sneakers. But I do think there is every generation - and it won't be as big as it was when you and I were those ages - but every generation all of a sudden experiences that they want to dress up.

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

For me, there's always an early-'70s sense. There's always a sprinkle of it - if I do it exactly like that, sometimes it becomes too costume-y or too thought out. But the influences are there, without a doubt, always, because to me, that was the part that I also felt was the most defining of my own personality and my own style, and I also think that it's timeless. You never look wrong.

I don't think about what I can't do or what I shouldn't be doing. I just think there are endless possibilities musically, really.

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.