Chart positions are for people with manbags who get to work at 11 A.M. because they've been at a digital meeting.

When I'm doing music and I'm on the road, I love it. But once I'm home, it's very difficult to go back out on the road.

My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think.

You'll find people who rib you about their age are petrified about getting old. It doesn't bother me.

I do think my old fella wasn't much of a... I don't remember him ever being a 'dad' dad. He was too busy working. It was a hard life, man.

You have to make the effort with children. You can't have them thinking that I reckon I'm special, otherwise they'll start thinking they're special. I want them to feel normal for as long as possible because God knows they'll reach an age when they'll be told they're not.

I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it.