Yes, I always say that were a National League band. What I mean is, if you play an instrument, you have to sing. So I always call our drummer up. Even the drummer has to take a turn on the microphone.

I'm very influenced by landscapes, not so much the way places look as the way the names sound. In this country we've got so many cultures, and the place names - the Spanish names and the Indian names, which are so incredibly musical.

I love singing. The joy of singing live - I don't think I will ever stop that.

If I'm crazy, I'm blissfully so!

Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.

I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.

The reason you write [songs] is because there's something you want to say that is important to you - enough to go through all the torture of writing.