I'm influenced by all kinds of music. I have a very diverse iPod. You never know if I've got it on shuffle. You never know what you are going to hear next. I like all genres.

Kids on the Youtube, learning how to be cool.

It's like pulling teeth to get me to do photo shoots. And I don't mind doing interviews if they're by phone, but I hate to go sit down and have to meet somebody somewhere, you know what I mean.

I say if you're going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall.

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

There's some *NSYNC and Backstreet Boys on my iPod. I listen to it if it comes up on shuffle.