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.

I sit around and play acoustic guitar - usually acoustic, sometimes electric, occasionally piano, but more often guitar, just trying to come up with tunes. Ideas kind of pop into your head.

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.

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

I used to drink a lot. I had to stop drinking because it was getting the better of me, and I replaced that with really doing shows.

I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do.

I do like writing songs in a band. When it's rock, it's such a different kind of dynamic, obviously.