I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.

The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground

I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born.

Far away, to an infinite world I escape. I'm clear and calm, I'm unafraid. Sunless days, in my sheltered milkyway. In Saturn's rings I feel no pain.

Didgeridoo was something I picked up while I was on tour in Australia with Peter Gabriel in '93. I found out later that it's only meant to be played by men.

And she is your holy Mary. And I am so ordinary.

But looking back, the fact was that I had a couple of big hits too quickly and it was simply too much for an introvert like me to handle.