I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song.

I understand why Vladimir Putin is very popular in Russia - he's probably the first Russian leader to not apologize for being Russian. People always pin it down to one man, but there's hundreds of millions of Russians of various sorts. Putin does seem to be very popular in Russia, if only because he stands up for Russians wherever they are, which is exactly what Americans do with Americans, of course.

I don't do live things.

I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song.

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.

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

What I like about popular culture is its accessibility, and I've covered popular songs because they are amazing things.