To me music is the centre of the universe and the voice of the spirits and the voice of God and the voice of all the people who have lived and died...At least the ones I'm connected to.

Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist.

For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time.

As long as you're excited about what you're playing, and as long as it comes from your heart, it's going to be great.

And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old.

Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.

Music is my life. The things that people do don't seem interesting to me at all - going out to bars, carrying on, going to parties. What the hell do people do? Shop? Play golf? Have vacations? That doesn't seem interesting to me. To me, my job as a musician is to be a good receptor. A lot of music comes through me.