Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

I probably also wanted to be black at that particular time [ 9 years old] as well.

I'll place my love beneath the stars.

A lot of people that I know are bugged with the idea that they have got to have an audience, or they have got to be liked. I think the more that you fall into that trap it makes your own life harder to come to terms with, because an audience appreciation is only going to be periodic at the best of times.

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

My mother was a housewife. Both from - well, my father was from a farming family, agricultural family in the north of England. And my mother came from a very working class.

The younger people get into the lyrics in a different way; there's much more of a tactile understanding, which is the way I prefer it.