I'm celebrating my love for you with a pint of beer and a new tattoo
[A]s long as you're comfortable it feels like freedom.
A virtue never tested is no virtue at all.
I try and write honestly about what I see around me now.
If I can entertain people and get them to open up a little bit, then they're much more conducive to any ideas I might have, whether they're about relationships or politics. The most interesting songs, I think, are the ones where the two overlap.
I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return.