That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family. I find it very sad.

Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.

Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.

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

What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't.

What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't.

I hated the royal wedding.

Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age.

When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.

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.

The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.