I'll probably lose every friend I've got, but I think the Russians are about the only people who have behaved decently in the conflict with the Ukraine. All the evidence to the contrary seems a bit bogus to me. NATO is trying to use Ukraine to isolate and cripple Russia, and that's completely crazy and very cruel. It seems to me that our side, the English and American people, really want it to go bad there. But there's no need for it to have done so. At least that's what I think. You won't hear a lot of that on Fox News.

What hurts people a lot is taking humiliation.

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.

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

Drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckless, and that's the trouble.

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

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.