Country music... doesn't bend notes in the same way, so I suppose it's very English, really. Even though it's been very Americanized, it feels very close to me, to my roots, so to speak.

You have to realize that everyone in a band is all more or less together, and everyone has their own niche, and some people lead in some ways, and some people lead in others.

Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.

You have to write a song around this specific character or to enhance a specific scene. A lot of other craft goes on.

That's one of the good things about a lot of the young British bands, they are mixing all styles of music. I think that's very good because that's very now.

Of course, I do occasionally arouse primeval instincts, but I mean, most men can do that. They can't do it to so many. I just happen to be able to do it to several thousand people. It's fun to do that.

The terrible attack in Manhattan has given place to a burst of patriotism in the United States.