If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.

I can take criticisms but not compliments.

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.

We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.

I have a studio in a barn at home - we rehearse there, we film there and we record there. It's fun to hang out with my guys and see what comes out next.

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.

I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.