I don't know anything about the Appalachian mountains or cowboys and Indians or anything. I just made it up.

Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.

I used to go round to Aunt Mimi's house and John would be at the typewriter, which was fairly unusual in Liverpool. None of my mates even knew what a typewriter was. Well they knew what it was but they didn't hae one. Nobody had one.

Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.

Some people don't believe in climate warning - like those who don't believe there was a Holocaust.

Every love song I write is for Linda.

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.