And if you have five seconds to spare, I'll tell you the story of my life".

If met Vic Reeves, I'd have no desire other than to smack him in the face.

I've always done quite well as far as the charts are concerned. And yet I always felt I conveyed the spirit of the music I love, which didn't have any chart success.

As a very small child I found recorded noise and the solitary singer beneath the spotlight so dramatic and so brave... walking the plank... willingly... It was sink or swim. The very notion of standing there, alone, I found beautiful.

Any criticism of Thatcher throws a dangerously absurd light on the entire machinery of British politics. Thatcher's name must be protected, not because of all the wrong that she had done, but because the people around her allowed her to do it.

I do maintain that if your hair is wrong, your entire life is wrong.

I'm cursed with the gift of foresight.