In Los Angeles, I feel connected to a hubbub of strangeness. And I enjoy that; I like strangeness.

I'm not educated. I left school when I was 16, with no qualifications.

I'm still looking for the rules of what is and isn't pop music. I'm pop. I mean, of course I am. What isn't pop? There should be a pop amnesty where everyone reclaims it.

I did the rock 'n roll-pop cliche of getting burnt out. I'm not the first person that happened to, and I'm sure I won't be the last.

I'm conscious of age, but I'm more suspicious of it than anything.

I enjoy nakedness. I am a bit of a naturist at heart.

I'm trying to not follow fashion. I don't even like the word. But I do like clothes, and I like nicely cut clothes that last and that are built to be worn for the next 30 years.

I've had to make friends with an awful lot of bad fashion choices.

I'm constantly doing new stuff, and I want it to be received really well. Who knows what's ego, what's business, what's artistic. It all shifts on a day-to-day basis.

I think dysfunctional people are being funneled into very corporate behaviour. Look at the Brits... no one's fighting, and it's boring.

On an emotional level, success in America would be terrible for me; it would be insane. I really, seriously, never want to be famous here.

People say you've got to be OK with your own company, but tell me why?

I'm mainstream, and I have pretty chart-tastic tastes. I don't often veer away from a big melodic song with big words for big stadiums.

I have a gigantic ego and need to be at the top of the pile and be doing amazingly well; also, at the same time, I'm just pleased to be anywhere.

There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general - it's kind of a despised art form.

I'd make a better U.S. president than George W. Bush. Bush is an idiot. I'm a better public speaker than him. It makes you wonder about the voters.

There aren't many great adverts for marriage or parenthood. It always looks so stressful, and that's what I've been scared of. What you don't realise is how much you're going to get back.

I like me food. I also don't like me exercising. It's something me don't do very well. But it's something I've got to get into.

You've got a beautiful country with so many beautiful people and so many beautiful things happening and stuff like that lets it down. I feel sad for them.

I refuse to totally grow up. I've always been someone who says and does things that push politically correct boundaries.

I like to be comfortable, but I do enjoy being a British gent and dressing up a bit.

I want a hit. I don't think anybody spends 12 months writing and recording an album, making something cool, and says, 'Great, I hope this doesn't sell.' I don't understand that mind-set. I want hits: a big bunch of them.

It's success, not fame, that is quite addictive. I'm addicted to a lot of things and, as it happens, success is one of them.

I don't think it's important to be that good at singing. I think people who are good at singing sing backing vocals for pop stars. It's about how you project. I wouldn't consider myself to be a singer.