“I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them.”
Family“I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.”
Family“I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them.”
Family“I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.”
Change“I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.”
Freedom“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.”
Change“I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.”
Family“I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.”
Home“The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.”
Death“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.”
Failure“It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.”
Smile“One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.”
Freedom“I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.”
Fitness“I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.”
Music“I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.”
Famous“There's no religion but sex and music.”
Music“I feel this music has nurtured me as I've been immersing myself in it. I've felt supported by it.”
Music“Yoga is almost like music in a way there's no end to it.”
Music“I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.”
Fear“I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.”
Music“I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.”
Age“I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.”
Music