90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?

It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.

Well, a sort of epiphany: I was in a great band. And it's very cool to be at 53 and realise that when you were a kid you were in a great band.

I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.

And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.

I'd always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.