There are times when I think I can sing it better, but usually I find that I can't.

People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it's a way of pulling people in and not scaring them off. I think a lot of the funny stuff, underneath it, there's a deep anxiety going on.

Songs need to have the ability to change and to grow for sure. They take on lives of their own. Some songs just don't have that capacity. They're locked within a period of time. And as soon as you take them out of that period of time, they die very quickly.

I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren't much of a muse, but then I weren't much of a poet

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

To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things are going.

I'm hugely self-critical in the morning.