I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.

What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.

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

All at once we see things in our skies, and we both realize it together. Well you know they were wrong, get on the right thing.

You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.

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.

I think it's something to do with the structural quality of the songs. We weren't actually trying to make stuff that was cool, or of the moment, although a lot of it was. We were trying to make stuff that was good enough to stick around and lo and behold, it has.