Although it's painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively - some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don't agree with, you don't work on.

Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference?

I don't mind not being cool.

When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.

I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.

Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.

Anyone who criticises me for talking about fair trade is a few pebbles short of a beach. Because everyone should care about it, just like everyone should care about the environment, because we all live here.