People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.

It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia.

I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so.

If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about.

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.

Said 2,000 years of Christian history, baby And you ain't learned to love me yet?