My musical career was an accident.

When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.

All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!

London was a really multi-racial city ... It's incredible how comfortable people are with race there.

Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.

I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile, it wouldn't bother me if he was a thug or an aristocrat, as long as he was a good guy. And I've ended up with an educated thug.

When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.