Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.

I write hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really.

No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.

I write songs from the point of view I had at a time;I'm not tryingto write songs from a young person's point of view.That only ends in disaster.

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.

If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.

We are still struggling with people who don't feel comfortable going into museums. As a visual artist I ask how artists can be part of enacting a change.