The song is about love, life, fear and hope... and more than anything, you... and me...

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.

If you get up on stage and brag, I don't think that's very brave. It's braver to get up and take your clothes off. And I do that every night.

I am a dreamer but when I wake, you can't break my spirit, it's my dreams you take

There's a lot of music nowadays with people singing about how amazing their clothes are and how incredible their shoes are and how much jewelry they might be wearing or how much jewelry they want, how much money they have and the club that they're in and the alcohol that they're drinking. I think that's showing off. I don't think it's necessarily all that honest or all that interesting.

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

War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations.