And there are certain songs that are really timepieces and shouldn't be touched. But some of them are a celebration of good humour and sensibility and I think that's okay. I don't care about the past, I'm a musician with ambition.

You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you

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

I'll just carry on being a dated flower child.

It's a shame to see these young chicks bungle their lives away in a flurry and rush to compete with what was in the old days the goodtime relationships we had with the GTOs and people like that. When it came to looning, they could give us as much of a looning as we could give them. It's a shame, really.

I have no story. My story goes from day to day.

When you're 20 years old and you're making points with volume and dynamism, it's a fantastic thing to do.