Anyone who's been a heavy drinker and heavy smoker and has the good future to survive that and give it up knows what a very different kind of daily existence one has. I was smoking a couple of packs of cigarettes a day. And I was drinking heavily on tours.

I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.

There's a deep tribal aspect to my own nature. So when I'm in contact with those deep resources, of course I feel a very special kind of nourishment.

Everytime you grab at love you will lose a snowflake of your memory

I don't have any spiritual strategy.

I've always held the song in high regard because songs have got me through so many sinks of dishes and so many humiliating courting events.

Everybody knows that the boat is leaking. Everybody knows the captain lied. Everybody got this broken feeling, like their father or their dog just died. Everybody talking to their pockets. Everybody wants a box of chocolates and a long-stem rose. Everybody knows.