I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it.

There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.

The Beatles were a phenomenon, but they were also ordinary blokes like anyone else. I was lucky enough to see that side.

If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.

Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.

I think good music makes you feel free, and if people feel free when they come to a show or listen to my music, that would mean the world to me.

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.