Boys were a very essential part of rock & roll. The girls were more onlookers.

He stole my music but he gave me my name.

When you write songs, you have to like them yourself first, but then you have to make everyone else like them, because you can force them to play it, but you can't force them to like it.

People get very thoughtful when they are in cars. I no longer care for cars. I don't collect them.

As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen.

Quite often when I record a song, writing it and making a demo is the big thing and, after that, I think, how do I actually translate this into real life? A lot of the time I think I can't be bothered.

I am not very conscious of the figures of speech that I use.