Coming out's the hardest part, when you're Queen Elvis.

I've never been burdened with a hit record, so I don't have to play the same songs. I play songs people think they like.

Superman, Superman, crunchy little Superman. Found you in a Cornflakes box.

Just as with a guitar, you can improvise a guitar solo, and they'd probably be similar each time, but they won't be exactly the same. With the word, it's probably a bit freer than that. I probably repeat myself more musically than I do verbally.

In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.

Like trillions of others, if it wasn't for Bob Dylan, it would have been a different musical landscape. Pop music wouldn't have been my thing at all. I did also grow up listening to The Beatles, but I never thought of being a Beatle.

After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.