After I've done the salesman bit, I like to be quiet and retreat, because that's whereI write from. I'm a sort of quiet little person.

I'm not vanishing into thin air.

Music is like comedy in that you can enjoy a very - for want of abetter word - sophisticated classical piece as much as you enjoy something that's very simple pop.

Disappearing act? That's a magic trick, isn't it? I like magic tricks!

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.

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

[Theresa May] is a very intelligent woman but I don't see much to fear.