I worked in a plant when I was 14 for two years. I always wanted to do the summer jobs. Honest to God, I always had to be doing something.

There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.

I took the song The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face from a folk singer called Bonnie Dobson. I knew her and she had a record with that track on it.

Whitecaps in profusion all around me, but somehow in your eyes I found the strength to sail upon that raging sea.

It seems so lucky to just to have the right of telling you with all my might, you're beautiful tonight.

'If You Could Read My Mind' was written during the collapse of my marriage. It's a great song. No one has any gripes about it. I wondered what my wife and daughter might think. My daughter is the one who got me to correct 'The feelings that you lacked' to 'The feelings that we lacked'.

I was a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it.