If you repeat yourself, then I think you're in danger of losing that fan base, because if you're not interesting yourselves, you're not interesting your audience.

All of my kids are into music. My older daughter plays guitar, piano, sings. My young son, he sings.

When people meet me I think they're surprised to find out I'm not always angst-ridden.

England never felt claustrophobic for me at all. I think it would feel more difficult for me if I lived in mainland Europe. America I think is really easy because Los Angeles has film stars everywhere and musicians and Santa Barbara a lot of people have homes there even if they don't live there. You are kind of inconsequential, no one cares.

The only things we have to worry about are really stupid things.

I knew at quite a young age that I had an issue with drinking.

Our music over the years has been very cinematic. It's surprising we never really got into film soundtracks.