People in England are so bloody nosy.

I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.

I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

I'm glad I've given up drugs and alcohol. It would be awful to be like Keith Richards. He's pathetic. It's like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go onstage and look young.

I really don't need the public's money. I'd like to have something on the internet with charitable donation optional, where anyone can download my music for free.

A great editor is the most valuable thing you can have as an artist because, as you said, sometimes you get too close to something. I think, apart from your talent, that's why you have the career you have - because you have great people behind you.

It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding.