If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything.

I've watched other people singing, I've become a much better singer. I've become a singer that plays the piano instead of a piano player that sings.

I just go into the studio, look at the lyrics for the first time when I put them on the piano, and go. If I haven't got it within 40 minutes, I give up. It's never changed, the thrill has never gone, because I don't know what I'm going to get next.

This is a tremendous assest for the club, a tremendous headache lifted from our shoulders, really.

Until I can visualise what the lyrics are about and see the story or whatever, I can't hear the melody.

The worst thing you can do to a child, and I've seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon.

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.