As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?

All art really does is keep you focused on questions of humanity, and it really is about how do we get on with our maker.

Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn't see a space in which we could get anything together.

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.

Age doesn't bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It's the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.