I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being.

I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.

Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.

I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear, I like my toast done on one side. And you can hear it in my accent when I talk, I'm an Englishman in New York. See me walking down Fifth Avenue, a walking cane here at my side. I take it everywhere I walk, I'm an Englishman in New York. I'm an alien I'm a legal alien, I'm an Englishman in New York.

The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.

My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.