I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.
What the English like to do is to face reality with a glass of port and a tear and fade off like Basil Rathbone into the sunset.
We are musicians, entertainers. We can do it. We have the right tools. No worries.
If you don't want anyone to know anything about you, don't write anything.
Any fool can hide, few can play.
I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.'