Read books, discover the blues and don't Tweet.

One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

The worst thing about me is that I'll buy albums and put them away on the shelf and forget that I've got them.

My favorite thing is coming up with titles. The majority of the songs I've every written I've always thought of the title before I've written the song.

Elton John's home is laden with trinkets and books relating to Satanism and witchcraft.

I am a simple vessel with complex overtones, opinionated on occasions but willing to listen. Comfortable with reclusiveness and devoted to privacy and family. Patriotic to a fault and allergic to cruelty, ignorance and bad music.