I am slightly shocked to have gone as far as I have.

I began to go to concerts when I was 12 years old.

I don't iron anything. Never have and never will.

I don't know what I am.

I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.

I earn more than I thought I would when I became a poet.

I feel undefinable actually.

I hated the royal wedding.

I know I will never have a hit single in America.

I know L.A. well, but it's a police state.

I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.

I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normally living.

I swim when I can but I don't work out.

I think I'd be a prime candidate for canonisation.

I think there are unseen powers who don't want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas.

I would find the idea of compiling a setlist that doesn't wildly excite me to be too restricting.

I'm a traditionalist.

I've been pilloried so many times that I begin to expect it now.

I've never intended to be controversial, but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.

If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.