I'm quite a private person and I like my work to do the talking.

I think quotes are very dangerous things.

I suppose in some ways doing some of the songs in the show felt a bit like I was doing cover versions. I was covering myself. Not that they didn't feel like my songs, but the way I was approaching them was from a place so outside where they were written. The fact that these songs were in the context of a live show was a new thing.

When I'm writing I've been playing something for a couple of hours and I'm almost in a trance. At two or three in the morning you can actually see bits of inspiration floating about and grab them.

My desire was never to be famous. It was to try and create something interesting musically if I could.

I don't think it's a very nice idea [making biopic] at all. I don't think my life is that interesting.

Being nervous actually kept me very tense.