And I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various Sorrows Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen Some kept safe for tomorrow.

I have to be able to see the thing that's going on that I'm writing about, or else it just doesn't make any sense to me.

Everybody tends to overplay live. That's just the nature of playing live. And that can be great, but it can also kill something that's special, and intimate, about a recorded version of a song. You find out very quickly which songs you can play, and which songs you do damage to by playing them live.

I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.

I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike.

Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.

I'm hugely self-critical in the morning.