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.

There's so many people to see. So many people to check up on and add to your collection.

I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss.

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

I get very frustrated by this term 'genre exercise.' I mean, what exactly is that? Genre is not really relevant when you are writing a song; hopefully you are doing it to explore something, to create something, and I don't agree that any of my albums are genre exercises.

Obviously I got known for some other songs early on, and some of those were rock'n'roll songs. Some of them were melodic pop songs. And I've done lots of different things, as you know, but every so often I get drawn back.

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.