It just doesnt mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be able to get on with what I do, and hang around my friends.

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

I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology.

People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway.

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

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

We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.