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

The gap between rich and poor is, in fact, widening enormously. This idea of building up the powers of people who are already powerful and keeping everyone else back is a recipe for endless misery and conflict.

I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know.

People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?

On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.