Well, I suppose I could do a solo album, but my god, it would be terrible!

People say that I'm a millionaire, but that's not true - I only spend millions.

No, I've never thought that I was gay. And that's not something you think. It's something you know.

Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.

Possibly the whole creative whirlwind of any musician's life is based on garnering and developing and absorbing more and more experience.

I'm just lucky because my kids are grown-up - I love them, very proud of them, and we are in close contact as big-time friends, but they don't need me that much now and I can actually enjoy this wonderful world of music.

Now and again there will be the occasional joke about owing someone two dollars from the days in '63 when I was a broke blues singer with a washboard, but it's good. I'm happy.