My girlfriend, Barbara Massacci, is a fashion designer and has made quite a few suits for me - including the gold brocade one I wear on the cover of The Last Bandit - and the striped trousers I'm wearing on the back cover) . The first tailor I went to was John Pearce who has a shop in Meard Street in London. He made the suit I'm wearing on the cover of the Jacobites' Old Scarlett album.

Most of my clothes are just lucky finds. Some people give me clothes. Some people swop clothes. You just have to keep your eyes open. The majority of the clothes on sale these days are so uninspiring. . . But you can find good stuff from time to time.

Is there a current fashion designer you find interesting or you find them boring, overpriced poofs?

Well, Barbara is cool! Nino Zerutti has made some good stuff as has Vivienne Westwood even if she doesn't design anything herself these days. I used to buy some of her stuff from the World's End shop in Chelsea in the late seventies and early eighties. The last VW suit I bought was a grey pin-stripe a few years back. I wore it on stage in New York a few times. Mind you, you can't go wrong with a black velvet jacket. . .

Finally, for now, what is your favourite item of clothing ever that you own, ever?

The thing with me is I don't have any uncool clothes. Everything I own looks great. I wouldn't feel comfortable wearing baggy jeans and a sweat shirt - I only feel relaxed if I look like Nikki Sudden. At the moment my favourite thing is a really cool seventies cowboy shirt that I bought for $24 in Seattle this April. It looks like the sort of shirt that Humble Pie or the Faces would have worn.

What about the vintage mania that has erupted?

What vintage mania?

I love the way Keith dressed in the sixties and seventies. He still looks good now, but better when he wraps a scarf round his head. . . Ronnie Wood always looks cool as does Dave Kusworth. Bob Dylan looks great on stage - and pretty terrible off. Marc Bolan, Mott the Hoople. . . You know the stuff. . .

And what about accessories?

I got a cool second hand VW silver double rose ring. The roses were painted red and white (York & Lancaster) but the ring was too big for me. I got it made a bit smaller and the paint sheered off! Silver Tiffany 3-ring ring. Silver band ring from Tubingen in Germany. A few silver bracelets. I lost my best bracelet - one I hadn't taken off for 10 or more years in Boston last year. Don't go to Boston! I buy cool brooches when I see them and when I have the money.

Scarves, I have hundreds of them. And some cool belts as well.

I don't wear shoes, only boots. And the best boots in the world are Chelsea Boots, aka Beatle Boots..

When's your birthday?

My birthday is today - July 19th.

So anyway, how would you like to die? (from birth to death. . . )

How would I like to die? In my sleep with all my family and friends around me? In my boots with a six-gun / pistol in my hand? Glamorously? Romantically? With all my affairs in order? With all my affairs in disarray? In bed with a beautiful blonde? With a beautiful brunette? Painlessly, that's one criterion. . . I'd hate to burn to death…

From birth to death… I hope I'll have left a worthy legacy behind when I do pop my clogs…

How would you describe yourself? What are the positive and the negative sides of your character?

Incredibly stubborn. But that's a family trait. I always think / know that I'm right - and normally I am. I often ask other people for advice and then go and do what I was going to do anyway. . . I'm also incredibly optimistic. I never worry about anything because if you worry about things you don't change them, you just make yourself feel bad… and then there's even less chance of things working out fine…

I suppose I'm quite attractive - enough people have told me that I am. I've also been told that I'm very charismatic on stage… In New Orleans 11 or 12 years back I bought three ju-ju bags for 'Added Charisma' - which can't be a bad thing to have. Unfortunately I lost them somewhere.

And I'm one of the few people these days - Dave Kusworth, Ronnie Wood and me - who still dresses cool.

Negative side - I'm a terrible businessman. I don't say, "No!" to enough people. I'm too broke - that's the most negative thing I can think of.

On the whole I'm fine…

What historical era would you just love to live in? (me, in Paris in the twenties, preferably in the Moulin Rouge. . . )

I never really fancied Josephine Baker!

This is difficult. I always think I'd have loved to live in the time of the French Revolution. But seeing as I can't speak French this might not be such a good idea.

Or in the 1930's playing the dives, juke joints and honky tonks with Robert Johnson. In the early fifties alongside Hank Williams. Or at Sun Studios with Sam Phillips and Co. Really I think London must have been so cool during the Sixties. If I'd been around then I'd have been hanging out with the Stones and the Beatles. London / England was really cool up until the mid-Seventies. I wouldn't have minded being a fighter pilot (Royal Flying Corps) during the Great War - I've always felt a strong kinship with Albert Ball. And I wouldn't have minded escaping from a POW camp in Germany during the Hitler War - Stalag Luft III or IV or Colditz… One of those…

Really I'd love to have been a bit older during the early nineteen-seventies. Top Of The Pops and Metal Guru… Mott The Hoople… The Faces… etc. , etc. Playing the same stages…

Tell me a bit about Berlin. How is it in the summer?

In the summer Berlin is incredibly hot. Or so I've heard… I haven't been there much this year…

Some people that have never been (like me) like to imagine it as it was pictured in the film Cabaret (auf wiedersehen mein Herr. . ) Is it a decadent metropolis? Is there a Kit Kat Club?? (I saw the film Cabaret when I was 13 years old. it changed many things for me. . . )

There is a Kit Kat Club but I've never been there. It sounds horrendous! Badly undressed, overweight German farmers out for sex with each other. Berlin was more decadent when the wall was up - which is when I fell in love with the place. I first went there in 1985. . . I'd seen Cabaret when it was released and from that moment I was fascinated with Berlin. Berlin can still be decadent but only at certain moments. You're out in some bar and suddenly you're in the middle of one of those 'Berlin nights'. You're hanging out with cool people, taking this, taking that - then it's dawn and the party isn't anywhere near stopping. But these days you have to look a little further to find the good times.

What is the question that journalists never ask you and you would like them to? And what would you reply to it?

The question I get asked the most by people is, "How does your music sound?" I always answer, "It sounds the same as I look!"

I wouldn't mind if more journalists asked interesting questions. I did an interview with Robin Gibson from Sounds in the late-eighties where I ended up talking about the Sussex Brethren and many other things I hadn't even thought of for many years. You want interviewers to inspire you so you remember things long forgotten.