When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in the country, and I visited Pakistan in the summers to go and see my family on my dad's side.

We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.

They say for every high high there must be a low low low low low

Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.

I like to get dark sometimes and then come back out into the light.

I'd love to win a Grammy! Not ambitious or anything. And just having a really lovely bunch of kids and a happy family life, would be good for me.

I think the best cure is to stop doing the thing that you think you should be doing and go and have a bit of fun in another medium, maybe other crazy things.

I did gardening and cooking and drawing and reading to try take the pressure off the music - just being eclectic and putting the fun back in and bringing more innocence in again is really important.

Music's free and music's for everyone to enjoy and express and interpret. It transcends countries and times and decades.

In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.

Back then they used different chemicals in the tanning process. They prevent ocean bacteria from eating away at whatever is inside. A leather bag from the early 1900's is like a time capsule.

If your mental health is sound, then when disturbances come, you will have some distress but quickly recover.

Nowadays, the truth is, I think a lot of the newer generation of action stars usually are pretty self-deprecating and cool. I mean, Dwayne Johnson is a great example.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

People think if you have money, it'll fix the problems, but it creates different ones.

And so I’ll let you go, and let it be. Whatever

When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel.

The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought.

It is thy duty often times to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.

I'm blessed to be able to do what I do.