There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.

It's very helpful to start with something that's true. If you start with something that's false, you're always covering your tracks. Something simple and true, that has a lot of possibilities, is a nice way to begin.

By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.

It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no importance once it's finished.

The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.