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.

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

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.

Don't wear your heart on your sleeve when your remarks are off the cuff.

Don't try to touch my heart, it's darker than you think. And don't try to read my mind, because it's full of disappearing ink.

I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow.

Somebody should clip Sting around the head and tell him to stop using that ridiculous Jamaican accent.