I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.

I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile, it wouldn't bother me if he was a thug or an aristocrat, as long as he was a good guy. And I've ended up with an educated thug.

Radio interviews are really snappy and I'm just bad at that. I just close down.

When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.

Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.