I tried to commit suicide one day. It was a very Woody Allen-type suicide. I turned on the gas and left all the windows open.

Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big.

Poor cow, you'll get your dumb man. You'll see your whole life coming at you in the back of his hand.

I'm the ultimate record fan. I still go out and buy records.

I don't have a computer. I am the Luddite of rock'n'roll, I don't have a portable phone. I write things down.

I was sitting in the classroom trying to look intelligent in case the teacher looked at me.

I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly.