I like to make my voice sound like a piece of tin that's been stuck on the side of a chair, lifted up as far as it would go and then let to spring - "doooiiinng." I like to make it into a piece of metal from time to time and I can do it, both with the movements in my throat and with, uh, my little toys... So I like to take it beyond just a voice, more into the realms of a weapon.

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

I treat everywhere as being a center from which I can enjoy the surroundings.

No, I've never thought that I was gay. And that's not something you think. It's something you know.

I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's not the achievement.

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