When two great saints meet, it's a humbling experience.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.

It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.

When a war is over I think it's a cowardly thing to leave the war behind you in minefields that hit women and children and the most vulnerable. Imagine the war is finished and you go to work and there are snipers shooting at you. Imagine taking your kids to the beach and you find that the beach is blowing up beneath you. Like there's nowhere safe.

I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.

I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do.