I had a very moral upbringing, and spiritual in a sort of not very specific way.

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

If you feel like singing along, don't.

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for home, with eleven stories to tell.

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

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.