I think the world is really small today, and fashion, from that end of it, it's instantaneous everywhere..

Why not go down the pub? A guy once came up to me at a gig and asked me if I had MySpace. I said, 'This is my space, and you're invading it.'.

It can get boring. Not the playing the songs necessarily, or doing the clothes. You know, you need stimulus..

There's more to distract people, isn't there? When I was a kid there was music and football and clothes. And that was kind of it, really. Those three….

My own personal theory is that all popular music, in whatever form it is, to me, it all comes from Africa. Whether it's filtered through America or w….

When I'm dead I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do..

When I discovered blues - I was 12-years-old - I didn't discover it in America where it was from; I discovered it from Fleetwood Mac - the original P….

When I listen to a record, or when I'm making a record, I listen to everything. I listen to the drums, the bass, the voice, the arrangement. I listen….

I'd like to think that what I've written over the years and what I'm doing now means something to people. People in the street all the time are sayin….

I'm definitely obsessed about artists and the type of music and the playing and the tone and all that kind of thing - I'm not obsessed about what the….

I'd like to think I've left something in the world. Without in any way trying to be morbid, but life is very short, and I'd like to think I'd leave s….

It's just something internal that says, 'I've got to do this now. This is what I'm doing now.'.

When I lived in a little flat in Pimlico in 1981, I'd write in the hallway. As you walked in, there was a tiny little recess type thing, hardly a hal….

When you look at so much of what we all love, there's either soul-based to it, or it's the blues. It's really the beginnings of any kind of music. It….

If you're in music, you're in music, and if you're in music you just want to keep making records and playing. That's what it's about, isn't it? At le….

I think people are just really disappointed, disappointed with Blair as well, who's just like Bush's lapdog. I think everyone's just disillusioned wi….

I've always liked my clothes, even before I could properly afford them. Clothes for me were never a cloak, a cover. They were how I chose to express ….

I think if you're a creative person, then you're always kinda looking to move things along - 'Where else can I go? Where can I take this?' From paint….

It is nice to make a record and people like it, and it's encouraging..

I'm fine with being thought of as a guitar player, and if I can get any recognition or respect for doing that, that's a pretty good thing for me..

I still want to do what I want to do, but we also have to think about some sense of protecting the business that's out there as well..