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

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

Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs.

I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.

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.

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.

I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.