It's a petty thing, but I wouldn't join the Scouts when I was a kid, 'cause you had to swear allegiance to the queen. I'm just not a royalist. I think it's idiotic, a hereditary principle.

The truth can't hurt you, it's just like the dark. It scares you witless, but in time you see things clear and stark.

I woke up and one of us was crying.

People become so deeply attached to the sound of one period that they blow a fuse when you move on. I've heard people complain bitterly about recordings they haven't even heard.

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.

Don't start me talking, I could talk all night. My mind goes sleepwalking while I'm putting the world right.

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