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.

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.

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

And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.

Elvis Presley and Puccini shall return.

The long arm of the law slides up the outskirts of town.

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