I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.

People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.

I've learned to really just say no. If I don't want to do something, I won't do it. There's nothing that can make me do anything.

I always like to tell a story.

I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'

It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years.