There may be said to be three sorts of lawyers, able, unable, and lamentable.

I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.

You don't really know a song until you play it live.

I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them.

I really enjoy what I do, and who I'm with and where I am. Having said that, I'm not really a person of habit, because what I do in my job is travel around the world and play concerts to people, and occasionally do very weird things.

It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa.

I've discovered special makeup by a company called M.A.C. You could wear it on the surface of the sun and it wouldn't move.