I buy DVDs. I don't really buy CDs unless they're for other people.

Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.

You could say I'm a mod, but with a small 'm'; I don't wear a parka, but I do question what I wear and what I listen to, which is what it's all about.

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

I'm not posh or common, I'm in between.

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

Sherlock and Watson are a love story

When I was 30, I used to wonder when I was going to quit playing. Use disorder worry about it. Now, I know I'm never going to quit.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.

Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him; and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket.

Im thankful for my songs being at the top of the charts but I am human - I think people still have to remember that.

Every time someone puts an objection to me, I want to say: 'OK, OK, let's go on to something else.' Objections have never contributed anything.

Shall I not rejoice also at the abundance of the weeds whose seeds are the granary of the birds?

It's so rare to see a woman's sexuality, real female sexuality, either in the shows or in the clothes.

I travelled to California when I was 18 and went to Los Angeles State College.

My childhood was colorfully anarchic and punctuated by a lot of change.