In Scotland, beautiful as it is, it was always raining. Even when it wasn't raining, it was about to rain, or had just rained. It's a very angry sky.

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Most people remember me for a couple of tunes.

You don't want to get worse at something.

I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?

I find that, rather than the cities, I'm very lucky because the audiences that come and see me are very, generally speaking, truly kind, so I have a great time playing everywhere.

I play in a lot of empty rooms.