I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so.

I'm not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing.

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.

On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.

Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.

The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.