Every time I do an interview, it's like serious therapy. But real therapy isn't something that I'd ever have. I feel fortunate that mentally everything is functioning well.

And the one job my father knew of, that he'd had experience of himself, was the Army, so he could help me in that direction.

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 don't think I picked up the guitar in the first place as a way of getting women. There are probably better ways of doing it.

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.

It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.

Mothers always think their children are prettier than they really are, and mine has always told me I look like Tom Cruise.