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.

The United States is a country where everybody can start again.

I was a latecomer to politics. Maybe I'm just very slow. I got to everything when everyone else had left.

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 think it's hypocritical to complain about the rise of China. For 50 years, we were telling everybody in the world that the big threat was Communism, so now the countries that were Communists are now rampant capitalists - and they're doing very well, in some ways much better than the UK. Well, we asked for it. We told them that's what you have to do, and they're doing it, buying up your biggest hotels in New York. You have to laugh.

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

My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.