I don't want an entire world full of people just drinking Coca-Cola and eating McDonald's hamburgers and listening to American pop records. That would be a lesser world. I hope the cultural diversity is rich and is able to survive the Westernization of their economies.

I'm naturally quite conformist, really. If I go to a country and they say, "You've got to drive on the right," I'm not going to drive on the left to show that I'm different. I'm able to stick to the law.

When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.

I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.

What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.

The gap between rich and poor is, in fact, widening enormously. This idea of building up the powers of people who are already powerful and keeping everyone else back is a recipe for endless misery and conflict.

I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry.