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

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

There's always peripheral things that you like that you don't know, but starting with whatever his British influences are, are some of my favourite artists, and the American things are what I grew up on as well. In the end, for me, it's those foundations of the music business - those things that are a lot of the foundations of what music today is. You can hear a bit of all of those things that we talk about in almost all music today.

There have been records I've been really, really pleased with that haven't connected with people. But I felt good about them.

Going to college was never an option. I was passionate about music, but how much talent I actually had was another matter.

I could write songs about politics, but I'm conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago.

I had a total belief in The Style Council. I meant every word and felt every action.