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.

The missing links in my life's work, no less!

In fact, when the fires of empire get hidden, they still stay burning underneath the moss, seething away. This is true with a lot of the countries with really difficult, impenetrable nationalist movements - countries that once had a big empire, like Turkey, England, or even in Italy, with the fascists in the middle of the last century. People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway.

Because of my politics, people think I'm anti-American. But I was quite the reverse. What I don't like about the United States is when the government acts like an old, imperial 18th- or 19th-century European power.

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 get slightly irritated by people who say they're natural rebels because it just means that they're going to be against whatever anybody does, which is almost like saying you might as well leave it as it is.

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