Now I'm a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.

I think The Song Remains The Same is such a load of old bollocks.

Life isn't moving quickly - time moves very quickly.

It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.

It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.

I hate cliché. And when you're a rock singer in 1966, or whatever it was, psychedelic blues, through to the '70s, which we know all about, and the '80s, which was a scramble to hang on in, and the '90s, which was a great time for experimentation... and I'm really still excited. The huge vast diagonals within the music that I've been involved with.

I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.