It can never be again! Everyone always talks about a good thing coming to an end, as if life was over. But I'll be 40 when this interview comes out. Paul is 38. Elton John, Bob Dylan - we're all relatively young people. The game isn't over yet. Everyone talks in terms of the last record or the last Beatle concert - but, God willing, there are another 40 years of productivity to go.

It is a quite special secret pleasure how the people around us fail to realize what is really happeningto them.

I think honestly, some people who think they're gay, they're confused.

I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that's all you've got, it's just boring. Everything I write, whether it's happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it.

People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.