The love song must be born into the realm of the irrational, absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane for the love song is the noise of love itself and love is, of course, a form of madness.

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

The way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write.

I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination.

I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.

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

The editing of a song is largely what makes the song for me and I think that actually if I had started going like 'I want you to burn' it would have pinned that song down to a particular thing and made that song a smaller idea than what it is. By leaving that off it's much more open, broader.