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

A is for Answering all your prayers, N is for kNowing that your loverman's going to be the answer.

I'm a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.

I'm not a misogynist, so you can dispense with that. I think I've done wonders for the feminist movement.

You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate.

There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line between nothing and something that happens within a song, where you have absolutely nothing, and then suddenly you have something. It's like the origin of the universe.

One thing that I'm really interested in is the kind of esoteric detail that surrounds these great figures. And Wikipedia is full of that kind of stuff, whether it's true or untrue. It staggers me: why, in the short space assigned to a person or an event, that kind of random information is there. To be honest, that's wonderful fuel for songwriting.