I think when you write songs, you write about people... People are the source of my material. And London is a wonderful place to be for people. So, the next time you're sitting in a park somewhere, and you see someone like me looking at you, don't phone the police. I'm just writing

Take a look around, there are misfits everywhere.

Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.

The Christians to the lions sold out every night.

Life had become a reproduction: it was not the real thing.

Life means nothing to you, at least that's what they say. But it doesn't mean that you have the right to take life away.

I met her in a club down in North Soho, where you drink champagne and it tastes just like Coca-Cola.