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.

There was not a lot of rock n roll in the house. Our parents didnt think it was very groovy, and I tend to agree with them. If you grew up with Charlie Parker, Bill Haley wasnt very hip.

Your mind is made up but your mouth is undone.

What do we care, if the world is a joke? We'll give it a big kiss, we'll give it a poke. Death wears a big hat cause he's a big bloke.

You'll never be alone in the bone orchard.

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.

But there are things in Il Sogno that the methods of The Delivery Man could never achieve.