Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?

Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won't be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this one. It'll be because people have changed. They'll be like you, Puffin. More a mixture. So why not become a mongrel? It's healthy.

What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.

My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation.

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

Maybe all of us at Hailsam had little secrets like that -- little private nooks created out of thin air where we could go off alone without fears and longing.