I don't advocate Stalinist monolithic state structures any more than I advocate capitalistic monoliths. Unfortunately, human society tends to the monolithic, whether you go to the left or right, everybody in leathers, or everybody holding Chairman Mao's book, and if everybody goes to one end of the pitch, I always go to the other.

One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.

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

Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.

I'm 63. It's kind extraordinary that I'm out here at all and people want to see me.

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

If you do things out of time you're weird.