I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.

You don't want to get worse at something.

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

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 had a very strange career. I mean I went from playing to 150,000 people in 1983/84. Three or four years later I was playing to four people, you know, in Melbourne. I thought - bit strange, you know bit odd, bit erratic.

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

I'd love to have a hit record. I don't believe anyone that says they wouldn't like that.