I'm still looking to write a great song.... You always are. You know, you never think, 'Well, that's enough ... that's good enough.'

No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you're always still thinking there's somebody out there who's better than you.

It was a period when they used to read into our lyrics a lot, used to think there was more in them than there was.

Painting is similar to music. You get a couple or words or notes or chords that excite you, and you just follow them and add a bit more and see where it takes you. That's the thrill for me. It still is a thrill, which is amazing after all this time.

My record producer [David Kahne] said the major record labels these days are like dinosaurs sitting around discussing the asteroid. They know it's going to hit. They don't know when, they don't know where it's coming from. But it's sort of hit already. With iTunes, and all of that.

That's not really important what religion people are attached to, because by the same argument I have a lot of Christian friends and Moslem friends. It's just happened that I do have a lot of relatives and friends who are Jewish.

Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.