I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class. The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.

With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed - that's sort of the root of age.

I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.

I hate celebrities. I really hate them.

Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.

If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.

Just seeing the things on TV and the things in front of you, the amount of information coming in, and the lack of information not coming in, how could you not help but write songs about it.