I don't like to condemn people because what that means is that you're only condemning yourself about a part of you that you can't stand.

Britain is not the same anymore of course. It's never the same.

Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.

There's a realization that you have to do something but you just can't do it all the time.

When I first started drinking, it was working for me. It was great. Like when you're doing a gig and you're in a band and you're in the truck and there's nothing to do in the truck and the gigs are all the same and the hotels are all the same...it's the hotels, the car, the gig.

It's the same thing as a primitive of Africans, Indians, nomads or whatever - when they start getting up and doing their ritual and doing the dance, it's just what's coming through. It's the spirit. Rock 'n' roll is still primitive.