Be yourself is all that you can do.

Sometimes, if a song is written, in essence, to be that stripped down, it's very touchy when you start adding things, because even the smallest thing can have a huge impact. Somebody has to make the decision that there's a better song in there if there's less.

It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.

There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something that you get over. I don't believe there's a healing process.

Radio and TV can still push a band, but things need to be shaken up. There is the Internet, but mostly what I see there is little kids on YouTube playing music.

'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing in Indian music. Paul McCartney was a huge Little Richard fan. John Lennon was into minimalist aggressive rock.

There wasn't a key moment when I knew I wanted to quit.