I don't really care what someone's background is; creativity can come from any background..

I love the Beatles. I haven't named any kids after them but I still really love them. They were the first group that I was ever properly aware of. In….

As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel aw….

You can do anything when you're famous. That's why famous people are so dumb..

We've always been a bit out of touch with reality..

I think that's what all art is for - for people to express what it is to be human. That's the purpose of it..

Every woman I've had a relationship with has found this maddening; the fact that I will talk about anything on the stage, and reveal all this stuff, ….

A Conservative government is necessary. There is no credible alternative..

I would rather kill myself than play my own music... I can't stand it when people do that..

I travel backwards and forwards quite a lot. I live very near to the train station. I'm kind of playing at being an expatriate, I suppose..

You get to a certain age and you just want to prove that you can still rock - that you've still got it..

I do want to have that feeling that people are actively involved in something, rather than just consuming something. I suppose that's what it comes d….

Well, once you've resigned yourself to the fact that you are the more mature pop performer and you're past the age you ever thought you would do it, ….

I like bossy girls. I don't like girls who just do whatever they think you want them to do, and follow you around trying to please you all the time..

If you wanted to be a creative person and you are confronted with the sum product of mankind's creativity up to this moment in history, that's pretty….

It's weird: The leader of the Conservative Party in England is two years younger than me, and I still don't really feel like a responsible adult..

I always feel like there are specific things about Houston. There's one museum in particular in Houston. So many of the things that I'm interested in….

For TV you also get those pre-interviews when researchers ask you what you're going to say. The pre-interview drives me insane. If they've already de….

The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me..

There's the famous thing that the A&R man from the record company is supposed to do: He's supposed to come into the studio and listen to the songs yo….

I'm not a religious person but I do like the idea of Sunday as a day set apart from the rest of the week. It's nice to have a period of reflection an….