There's something perverse isn't there, if you're playing in front of 100,000 people and there's 2000 people down the front who don't like, you think: what is it that they don't like?

I just figured if I'm going to call myself a songwriter throughout my life, then writing for most genres of music is something I should at least attempt.

Of course you can't please everyone all the time. It's just something that I've got to get over, and I'm better at it now.

As soon as you start making a record, things start getting lined up: the promotion, possibly even a tour.

'Urban Renewal' was sweet because I've been - unfairly, I would say - plonked in the middle of the road because of a handful of songs. It came at a good time for me, because you do take a bit of a browbeating and, as you get older, you become better at accepting it and realizing why it happens.

The answer is inside your head; it's easy to find if you take it logically.

I'm glad that the lyrics reach people and make them understand that we're all the same, really.