If I stopped making records or performing, I'd probably still be famous for a while being me. But I'd rather have something to show for myself.

I feel reinvigorated, having fresh energy and fresh ideas, and merging that with the history I have.

You know, songs often have a very coloured past. They might have something about them but it still doesn't work, so someone else adds a bit, and someone else adds a bit so perhaps one day I'll know its full history.

I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is.

This is such a special summer holiday for me. I haven't known myself so relaxed in years.

A few years ago my goal was to try and get the goddamned album made, which put me in a real bad frame of mind.

I certainly wished I hadn't stressed quite as much or had such insecurity at times. I wish I had trusted my instincts on some occasions when I didn't and I wish I had listened to better advice when I didn't. But overall, I have to look at the glass as half full and acknowledge that I am all of the moments of my life, the good and the not so good.