I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

Hendrix was the first person I had come across who seemed completely free, and when you're nine or 10, your life is entirely dominated by adults. So he represented this thing that I wanted to be. Hendrix was the first person who made me think it might be good to be a singer and a guitarist - before that I wanted to be a footballer.

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.

When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.

I entirely approve the measures proposed by you in relation to the Marines who are lately captives in Tripoli. Therefore execute them.

When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.

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