I don't think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual tracks from iTunes rather than a whole album. We buy music DVDs and watch them once, and then they disappear into a drawer, or we loan them to a friend, and we never watch it again.

It's only the giving that makes you what you are.

I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.

Walk the lines of nature's palm crossed with silver and with gold.

I'm all in favor of banks that play their part in community endeavors, private individuals looking for loans, people who want to start up a little business, and that's what banks are for.

Cafe society is as old as the hills. Starbucks and its imitators are the coffee face of the new man in a hurry.

Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.