Cardinal rule for all hitters with two strikes on them: Never trust the umpire.

Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.

Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest.

I married somebody who likes the way I look. If I changed my hair every year, and I reinvented myself in time-honoured pop fashion, I think understandably the person I'm married to would grow slightly sick of me.

If I book a hotel it's actually very funny. It's very nice to be a genuine Mr Smith.

Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.

Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage.