We are musicians, entertainers. We can do it. We have the right tools. No worries.

A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.

Parade your pallor in iniquity.

Respect yourself. Try to remember that not everything in life can be perfect. You will make mistakes. That's inevitable. But you are not ugly. You will only be ugly when you behave in an ugly way.

Tough boys running the streets, come a little closer. Rough toys under the sheets, nobody knows her.

I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man.

Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre.