For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.

People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, "God, no, I'm completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright."

I think the biggest, saddest thing that happens in our lives is that we just don't embrace the things that could make it better because they don't seem to make it better at any given moment or we can't decide how to get across the aisle to that person.

Your misery is everyone else's entertainment.

My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it.

But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.

You want to embrace, but I can't figure out how to hold on to it.