I love going up the West Coast of the U. S. because it's one of my favorite parts of the world to tour.

It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.

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 play in a lot of empty rooms.

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.

I tend to write, either myself, or I sometimes write with a co-writer, my friend that lives up the road. It's usually a relatively solitary thing, but I do like coming up with ideas.

You don't want to get worse at something.