You can wipe off that grin, I know where you've been, it's all been a pack of lies.

To be honest, I couldn't hold a conversation with anybody in any language other than English - and that's a struggle sometimes!

To be honest, producing records interests me less at the moment and I really don't want to get involved in album projects that are going to take up a lot of time

If it's the beginning of something - like an album, I'm working on the lyrics and I take a walkman and headset.

Drummers get bored. You tell them to play something simple, and it gets more complicated as they do it. If they're not a composer, if they don't have any kind of investment in the music, they'll just add a bit there and another bit there, and you think no! Don't do that. So you end up using a drum machine.

That's the trouble with wishing you were somebody else. As much as you may want it, you know it'll never happen, at least not in this lifetime.

I used to go to my local pub and it was like a sanctuary, nobody dared ask for an autograph. You went in there for a ploughman's and a pint, and you went home and watched TV. Believe me, there's more to watch on British TV than American, except for CNN right now. But yeah, I miss it.