I've had an unusual life. A life far removed from most people's experience.

I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music.

Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.

It's what I do. I don't deserve any awards for this, it's just music. It's just writing songs. You sit down, you write a song, you record it. You tour and play the songs live, dress them up a bit differently, or dress them down.

It's what's on the record not what labels on it. You know, that's like getting a box of cornflakes and eating the cardboard.

You can be addicted to misery the same way as you can be addicted to drugs.

We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels.