It took me to about maybe 16, 17 or 18 or something to realise I was absolutely useless at everything else except for playing guitar and writing words

My favorite pastime is staring out the window. When I go on tour, I can spend hours and hours just staring out the window, thinking about nothing. I love all that.

As I get older, I don't aggressively pursue songs. All the great ones just appear.

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.

Frontmen come alive when they come onstage.

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.

Music is a thing that changes people's lives. It has the capacity to make young people's lives better.