Things take a long time, but when it's right things move fast.

Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have - to be taken away from one's family and locked away for 10 years. It does create an incredible intensity of emotion.

I write songs about my own experiences. You can't lie to yourself. You can't pose to yourself.

Things take a long time, but when it's right things move fast.

I try to read everything that I can about myself because Saddam Hussein didn't read his reviews and he thought he was winning!

Ladies love a soppy lyric. There's a real winner in 'Carry You Home'.

Will you be my shoulder when I'm gray and older? Promise me tomorrow starts with you. Getting high, running wild among the stars above. Sometimes it's hard to believe you remember me.