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.

Many of the articles printed over the last few months have ended up painting a picture of me that is more than a little distorted.

That's the trouble with wishing you were somebody else. As much as you may want it, you know it'll never happen, at least not in this lifetime.

We all have the same problems in relationships.

Put your faith in what you most believe in.

If it's the beginning of something - like an album, I'm working on the lyrics and I take a walkman and headset.

Drummers get bored. You tell them to play something simple, and it gets more complicated as they do it. If they're not a composer, if they don't have any kind of investment in the music, they'll just add a bit there and another bit there, and you think no! Don't do that. So you end up using a drum machine.