I've gone through managers like people go through shredded wheat. Nobody looks after you.

I've gone through managers like people go through shredded wheat. Nobody looks after you.

I don't like myself very much as a person, but I'm proud of what I create.

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.

The Brits are ghastly. I never would accept a Brit. It would be like Laurence Olivier being happy getting a TV Times award.

Yes I have had a tan, actually. I went to Los Angeles and got one there, but it didn't make it back to Britain. You're not allowed to come through customs with a tan.

I think labels for the most part want to sign new discoveries so that that label alone is seen to be responsible for the rise of the artist. Not many labels want bands who have already made their mark, because their success is usually attributed to some other label somewhere else at another time.