You know, an idea is just an idea. There seems to... the kind of epiphanies that you have, like the little sudden bursts of light, they're very small and they're very short and it's the pursuit of the idea that's the important thing. . . . I know a lot of people who have way better ideas than I do that-much more frequently than I do that just can't sit down and actually do it. Ideas are such are a little overrated really; it's the work behind the idea that's the important thing.

I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story.

Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.

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

If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it!

I don't feel I'm thrown around by the winds of taste and fashion.

I'm hugely self-critical in the morning.