If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.

Every album I've ever been involved in, on the day that it came out I believed in it.

I'm not technically proficient enough to attempt all kinds of music.

I don't like being on television when I'm playing live. I don't even like being on Jools Holland or any of them programs.

I'm not sure about this Live 8 thing. Correct me if I am wrong, but are they hoping that one of these guys from the G8 is on a quick 15-minute break at Gleneagles and sees Annie Lennox singing "Sweet Dreams" and thinks: "F... me, she might have a point there, you know." It's not going to f... happen, is it? Keane doing "Somewhere Only We Know" and some Japanese businessman going: "Aw, look at him...we should really f... drop that debt, you know." It's not going to happen, is it?

True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true.

I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world.