I've never felt like I had anything important to say.

You've got to be strong enough for love. It's very easy to be cool and cynical. It's very difficult to just let yourself go and be in love. You've got to be strong enough for that.

I'm a great songwriter, but I'm not the most talented musician.

You can't afford to think about what might have been. You just be aware of what is.

Writing songs, that's what gets me going. Not the drugs or the sex or the rock'n'roll behaviour, it's the music.

With every song that I write, I compare it to the Beatles. The thing is, they only got there before me. If I'd been born at the same time as John Lennon, I'd have been up there.

There's enough music in the world. There are enough rock stars.