Of course you can't please everyone all the time. It's just something that I've got to get over, and I'm better at it now.

Perception determines insanity.

When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food.

I'm not trying necessarily to become a movie star; that wouldn't be bad but that's not the aim. I'm just trying to do interesting things and go into areas where I've not been before.

As a writer, author, creator of something the fact that people are still interested, is fantastic.

In Genesis we saw ourselves as song-writers. After Peter Gabriel left I was the first to say: 'It's OK - we can just do instrumentals.'

It's actually come as quite a shock to learn just how many people don't like me.