There are areas of music that I've never been to before, so that's always nice thing to have in life. That there are other areas you haven't been to. You haven't covered all the ground, and there's plenty more uncharted territory to cover as well.
Going to college was never an option. I was passionate about music, but how much talent I actually had was another matter.
I think part of what we do is there is a bit of dandy influence, always, or a little sprinkle of it. Not literal Savile Row dandy, but there's a bit of sartorial dandiness in everything that we do - every collection that we do.
The '40s were quite austere and super glamorous.
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 hallway, really, and I'd sit there writing songs with my guitar.
I think you have to satisfy yourself first and foremost. There have been records I've been really, really pleased with that haven't connected with people. But I felt good about them. If you're making music, you must want to turn other people on to it, whether you're number one in the charts or number 60. I don't know, that's a commercial thing, but just the fact that other people like you... there's no point in making music, otherwise. Otherwise you might as well make it in your bedroom and leave it there.
In all honesty, I don't know what one song can change.
For me, there's always an early-'70s sense. There's always a sprinkle of it - if I do it exactly like that, sometimes it becomes too costume-y or too thought out. But the influences are there, without a doubt, always, because to me, that was the part that I also felt was the most defining of my own personality and my own style, and I also think that it's timeless. You never look wrong.
Our campaigns have always been based on what we consider music icons that transcend generations and they're not of the moment - they continue to evolve.
If you're into a certain band, you're into the way they dress.
There are so many artists who get to my age that get comfortable and just stick in a groove, and I really don't want to do that.
When recording, whatever you first think about, you come out with something totally different at the end of it. Whatever plans you have you throw away, because it's always going to end up sounding pretty different from what you initially thought of. I probably only had about five or six songs when I started, and it just sort of flowed from that.
The whole thing with eastern music and instruments, I love all that stuff.
I just pretty much love from 1966 to 1972, that's my time. I think everything that needs to be said was said within that time. That's just a subjective thing, as well.
I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.
I only put an album out every two or three years.
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.
It's always good to play New York. The Apollo is a great gig. I loved that.
I never get too many problems. You can never please everyone anyway, obviously. And some people take the easy route and just play the greatest hits, and their audience is happy to hear that as well, and that's fine, but it wouldn't please me. But it doesn't trouble me.
I wanted to make a record that sounded like a continous piece
The way that house music has become so white and so sanitized over the decades and the fact it's still going on, well I think it's sad really, but at the time I really loved it. I loved all the black house music that was coming out of Chicago and New Jersey, which I just thought was really soulful.
I don't really wanna talk about politics, I'm not clever enough.
I don't think about what I can't do or what I shouldn't be doing. I just think there are endless possibilities musically, really.
The Beatles changed the world. They certainly changed my world, and many, many other individuals as well.
You can listen to music at any moment in the day or night. Which is great, but I think it kind of devalues it as well.
