no before noon

"I've lived in hotels for 25 years, and I've collected homes all over the world so that, to some extent, I can he relieved of that. I mean, this is a nice hotel, but to check into a hotel and shut the door is kind of prison-like. It's nicer to arrive somewhere you own, with a couple of books you own, a couple of paintings, something of yours. It's a nice luxury and I'm glad of it."


"I love America," he replies. "I owe it a great deal and it gave the world popular music, jazz, movies... the last century was definitely the American century, and I'm in love with that idea."


"It's almost too kitsch to turn down."


"Now, if I have an hour at home, I tend to listen to classical music. I rarely go to pop music to learn something because I usually recognise the archetypes it is drawn from. If I put on Bach or Brahms, that's different. I'm in the presence of genius, which can only do you good."


"When I perform I play my hits. I walk out in front of 20,000 people and nearly everyone's pleased to see me. I sing songs they want to hear, they know the lyrics, and I think, 'I wrote this in my living-room and now look.'"


"I don't like singing before noon."


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