I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.

Nothing in your life is beyond redemption.

It has very little to do with my work, but if your image is not sexy enough, people won't listen. It's part of the game.

I think you can get the wrong impression about me from my work and think I'm always a bit down. I'm not that way at all. I'm fun-loving.

Mr. Breschnev says we will bury you, I don't subscribe to that point of view. It seems like such an ignorant thing to do, if the Russians love their children, too.

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.