At about the age of ten, my friends and I discovered the joys of sitting in graveyards drinking merrydown cider and kissing and stealing our elder siblings' records.

Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find.

I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to justify his painting.

The upside to smoking is that you get to be social. I was looking for a light when I bumped into Ben Harper's manager. A couple of days later, Ben and I were in the studio.

Therapy is like telling your nightmares when you're a kid; they lose their power to hurt and control.

Kissing was something I did a lot of. Kissing in a wheat field as the sun begins to set on a summer's evening, with the haze of that light.

I don't read music; I taught myself guitar.