I have often prayed for you like this Let me have her

I don't have a television set up [in the mountains], of course, but I find I don't miss it at all, or the newspaper. I've sneaked a radio into by cabin, but I find I turn it on very rarely.

You live your life as if it's real.......a thousand kisses deep

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.

Some people, it [songwriting] comes faster. Some people, it comes slower.

this is every musician's dream, to stand in front of an audience and not have to prove your credentials.

We actually lead very violent, passionate lives and I think that we're hungry for insights into this condition. That's why we get all that stuff on television. It's really where we are, really what we are.