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

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

There's so many parts of your life, you know? People say that you don't get any better after the age of about forty or something like that, as a performer. I find all that to be a misconception. I don't feel bad about the way I present stuff. The calendar and the mirror - they're bastards.

How much do people really want to learn? I mean, some people get into a groove and they stay with it indefinitely. And what starts off as a great moment of explosive passion can end up as cabaret 25, 30 years later. It just depends on whether you go and find the right habitat to extend yourself.

Well, when I was a kid I used to hide behind the curtains at home at Christmas and I used to try and be Elvis. There was a certain ambience between the curtains and the French windows, there was a certain sound there for a ten year old. That was all the ambience I got at ten years old... I think! And I always wanted to be a certain, a bit similar to that. But I didn't want to sell pizza.

I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could.

I'm British - ostensibly British - but I don't know where I really belong, you know?