I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do.

I'd never really wanted to have a really 'private' life before. But when somebody starts delving into it and printing details through the tabloids for shagging people you shouldn't have shagged, then that probably made me shy away a bit more from giving too much away.

The good thing about people really is their iffy-ness and dodginess, isnt it?

People who make good music aren't necessarily nice people.

I'm always amazed by people who blog all the time and tweet all the time, and still get things done. I don't know how they do it.

I believe that humans adapt to circumstance. The Internet is quite an unprecedented circumstance, so it's going to take people a while to get their heads around it.

You have to create a bespoke cultural environment. I know this may be a kind of thing that an old person says, but I feel to quite a large extent I was reared by the TV I watched.