Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for.

Songs are like myths. Myths are useful because they allow you to cast yourself and your life and your own experience. And for some people, 'Fire and Rain' speaks to them in that way.

I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.

In the old days gigging was everything. The whole of life was about gigs. Everything was about waiting for the gig and then doing the gig and going nuts and then afterwards the party and all the stuff that goes with it. And then that party continues through your twenties and thirties. I'm now 51, and it's still very much in my blood, but I'm really hard pushed... the gig is the party for me now.

If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.

All invisible from where we stand the connections come to pass, and though too strong to comprehend they affect us not the less.

I know now one thing only matters in these days... true love... love and love alone.