When I look for what I'm going to listen to I go backwards. I'm always going the other way you see. Most people are trying to figure out 'how do I get in the fast lane going that way?'. I'm going in the other direction. I wanna find the oldest thing to do.

I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.

I feel wonderful because I see the love light in your eyes, and the wonder of it all is you just don't realize how much I love you.

But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.

My selective memory of what drinking was like told me that standing at the bar in a pub, on a summer's evening with a long, tall glass of lager and lime was heaven, and I chose not to remember the nights on which I had sat with a bottle of vodka, a gram of coke and a shotgun, contemplating suicide.

I don't have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.

I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.