Yes. I'm not unhappy about becoming old. I'm not unhappy about what must be. It makes me cry only when I see my friends go before me and life is emptied. I don't believe in an afterlife, but I still fully expect to see my brother again. ... But, you know, there's something I'm finding out as I'm aging that I am in love with the world. And I look right now, as we speak together, out my window in my studio and I see my trees and my beautiful, beautiful maples that are hundreds of years old, they're beautiful. And you see I can see how beautiful they are. I can take time to see how beautiful they are. It is a blessing to get old. It is a blessing to find the time to do the things, to read the books, to listen to the music.

Don’t make jokes at the expense of Little Mix. They have an ardent fanbase.

Healthy body and a healthy mind – very simple.

That we are all no more and no less than a single thread in a gigantic web of life. What we do and how we behave has repercussions for the entire web.

My brother Pete passing on in 2005.

My dad said, “You’re going nowhere.” I was seven or eight.

Gerry Adams, because he’s got incredible integrity and vision, and he’s had to put up with so much flak.

The contentment I have now.

I’d have stuck with the original Dexys Midnight Runners look we started in 1978, which became known as the New Romantic look a couple of years later. Our management and record label talked us out of it. Later, Duran Duran and Spandau came out with that look and that made us look old-fashioned.

Insanity. I am on a recovery programme – clean from drugs and drink for many years – and if I stopped doing all that stuff I’d go crazy pretty quick and pick up drugs again, because I was a real fucking addict.