That was the crossover line for us, to be able to play that many shows, sell them out real quick and have that tribe queue up outside and still be a mystery to everybody else.

I haven't chosen to make an issue of faith.

I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words.

And given that there's been probably a ten-fold amount of information about terrorism through the media than there has about climate change; I think that's quite an interesting statistic.

At an everyday level I would reckon myself more than fortunate.

Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue.

The core strands of my involvement in public life are a belief in the need to strive wherever possible for equality of treatment and opportunity, to ensure all people have the means to a decent livelihood.