My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.

You have to ask these questions: who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life?

I listen to the crowds [laughs]... I like Blind Melon very much.

Six months go by very quickly when you're a genius.

It's part of me to get off on those moments where... well, what people would call attention. Obviously, that isn't the be-all and end-all of life, but at the states of creativity that I've reached, well, it helps the lyrics along a little bit.

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 think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile.