I do promotion when it is necessary, but I always want to get back to the music.
I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen.
The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was.
Over in the UK, the music press can be brutal. They can say wonderful things about you one week, and the next week, you're in the can.
I always felt that the music sells by itself. The music has always been the successful aspect on my career, and that means that, to me, I can always still stay very focused on music.
I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.
There was this discussion to know how long the human ear was really receptive to the music. A 74 minute CD is too long. We thought about making two CDs, 35 minutes each... But the songs need to breathe.
As a child I wanted to be a ballerina, ice-cream van owner, wife of George Michael, a nun, and a music conductor.
I am enormously susceptible to religious environments - the music, the liturgy and the prayers.
I remember Tim telling me that he had an idea for a musical and he said to me that he was hoping that ABBA would be writing the music, which I thought was a pretty wild idea because they were obviously known very much as pop writers.
There's something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. That's something I wanted in my paintings.
I've always been drawn to stories and telling them; whether it was through being a part of theater when I was a little kid, or film, or with music, there's just been an innate desire to feel that connection.
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'
I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway.
If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.
I'm trying to learn classical piano, Mozart and Beethoven and stuff. I took lessons when I was younger and now I sort of sight read the music and play it by ear. It's fun. It takes up a lot of time. I practice a couple of hours a day, but I find it s...
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
'Vagabond' is about owning where I come from, understanding the real power music had to transport myself with, whether that's busking in Europe or getting number ones.
