I don't know how to write without thinking what people would want. You don't know whether they want you to be black or white, so you kind of get a gray, something in the middle.

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

I try to tell one lie in every interview. It keeps people I know amused when they read the article.

To come home and share life experiences with friends is the key to what makes me feel really alive.

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.

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.