For all the things I'm losing I might aswell resign myself to try and make a change.

I'm not a spiritual person at all, but I do think that the world doesn't have to be as lonely as it is.

Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.

I can remember being eight years old and having infinite possibilities. But life ends up being so much less that we thought it would be when we were kids, with relationships that are so empty and stupid and brutal. If you don't find a way to break the chain and change in some way, then you wind up, as the rhyme goes: a murder of one, for sorrow.

We waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them in it, but we can't get across that gully.

I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.

If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...