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.

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.

I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.

I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.

I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.

I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

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.

I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy.

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.

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.

I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.

One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.

I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

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.