There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.

I do have a spongelike ear or mentality or whatever you call it, but it's probably a bit subconscious.

People who paint, including myself, get to a point where a bit of angst comes in. If you're doing it for a living, it's worth it to suffer those slings and arrows.

Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.

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.

I'm only 49 years old. I'm still in the middle of this whole thing. I don't feel like it's finished at all. I'm still planning to write better songs.

If you love your life, everybody will love you too.