Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.

I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make, and I believe it has an important place. Others do, too, and the thousands of people with Morrissey tattoos certainly proves something.

The Queen is the ultimate dictator.

I've only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired.

Nature is a language - can't you read?

For the first time in my life the eternal 'I' becomes 'we', as, finally, I can get on with someone.

He [Elton John] is pushing his face in all the time and telling us about his private life. Nobody's interested. He should just go away.