I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I'm tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down.

People also like partnerships because they can identify with the drama of two people in partnership. They can feed off a partnership, and that keeps people entertained. Besides, if you have a successful partnership, it's self-sustaining.

Most people in England don't live in the North, and people are snobby in England, so they wanted a band from the South.

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.

Any performer is one person privately and then he's another person when he steps on the stage.

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.

You never really know what's going to happen. You never know what the audience is going to be like or how they're going to behave.