The pirate he will sink you with a kiss, he'll steal your heart and sail away.

I'm a painter first, and a musician second.

Unlike some of my peers, I haven't really hit a writer's block. When I hit a block I just paint, which is an old crop rotation trick.

I don't know who I am but you know, life is for learning.

I was anti-intellectual to the nth. Basically I liked to dance and paint, and that was about it.

I liked playing in small clubs. I really liked holding the attention of thirty or forty people. I never liked the roar of the big crowd.

My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s.