Songs are more powerful than books.

Elvis Presley and Puccini shall return.

And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music.

I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.

Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.

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.

I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years.And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.