It's just something internal that says, 'I've got to do this now. This is what I'm doing now.'

If you're into a certain band, you're into the way they dress.

People say you make your best work when in despair, but I think happiness is a good place to write from.

There's more to distract people, isn't there? When I was a kid there was music and football and clothes. And that was kind of it, really. Those three things defined you as a person.

I still want to do what I want to do, but we also have to think about some sense of protecting the business that's out there as well.

I could write songs about politics, but I'm conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago.

An artist or writer always has to move forward. All the time you're trying to improve yourself, or at least look at ways to improve things or make things better. I'm not really one to harp on previous records. I'm always looking forward to what I'm doing now, and what's ahead.