Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if you know how to un-form it. I don't mean to sound like an intellectual here!

You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd.

The only notes that matter come in a wad

I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.

I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel.

You're made to feel ugly, and I made ugly beautiful. Just by sheer persistence. Nobody has the right to say that I am ugly, and I will not be a professional victim, you know. Sorry!

One of the most beautiful things about Britain, apart from the NHS and the free education, is the British Army.