I think the best songs that come to me are ones that you sort of listen for. The ones - when I listen to some of my old stuff, I can tell when I had a good idea, but I forced it through, and I can hear myself - the bit that I've written, which sounds clunkier than the stuff that just sort of comes.

I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.

I mean, the way I'm talking, it sounds like I'm - you know, I'm about to go out and sign up for the nearest seminary, and you'll never see or hear from me again. But it's a hard thing to talk about really 'cause I'm not at all sure myself about it. But I've got a very, very simple sort of outlook to it. Yeah, that's all I can say, really.

I've always felt quite like an outsider. I don't really belong in the mainstream, and I quite like that.

There's really never any sort of master plan. I find if I've got a couple of tunes that I think are possibilities, I phone everyone up and get them into the studio and we'll have a go at recording them.

When I find a cover song that I like, I'll work away at it until I kind of believe that I wrote it.

I like being a big fish in a small pond. I'm not interested in a huge audience because it brings headaches.