The world is continually changing. I think in some ways it's changing in a very positive way.

Bang goes another kanga on the bonnet of the van

You'll never know that you had all of me. You'll never know the poetry you've stirred in me.

Some of the best pop music ever has come out of the States.

What made it special made it dangerous, so I bury it... and forget.

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.

I split it up into working on the two narrative pieces that can tell a story. The scariest thing was whether I'd be any good performing live again. It was such a long time since I'd done any live work. It's so different for me than recording. Every night my audiences were what I would dream of. You could just feel their support.