Being real is what is important.

Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!

Being real is what is important.

It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.

Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.

I was in rock music in London when it was the height of Brit pop, with The Kinks revival and Suede and Blur and Oasis, and all of those really great bands that were of a certain style. If I'd really been smart and commercially minded, I would have just got myself a blazer and some Stay Press and some Fred Perry tops, and just gone out and tried to do it like everyone else. Instead, I did this ridiculous thing of trying to do this music.

There's nothing worse than someone coming up to me and going Oh God, I really love your hair.