But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.
I suppose young people think football is glamorous - soccer - it's big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari.
When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move.
The quality of the writing, really. Simple as that. Beautiful words. It's very nice as a singer to do great songs, which have wonderful lyrics and strong feelings underneath the song.
Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.
You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?
All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. They dress up in these chains of gold, cars, girls and this and that, high-heeled shoes.
But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.
But I was feeling quite down at the time. I was living in L.A., which was kind of weird for me.
But I don't write so much now, because they're too painful.
But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.