I haven't lost my innocence particularly. I'm always ready to pretend I haven't. Yeah, it is a shame in a way.

You know, people can't fall in love with me just because I'm good at what I do.

I use the music almost as a compass in some kind of quasi-romantic way. I try and go to places that I'm intrigued by, and I take this music with me, using my name at the front.

I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.

I'm a total soccer freak. I total soccer freak. Absolute total.

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.

You can't even imagine how it felt to have a cassette that you could take with you with a microphone so you could put down an idea and not have to hum it a million times to remember what it was.