I don't hold onto anything, because it's a waste of energy to do so, really. There's nothing that I can do about the way people want to write about me. I just try and concentrate on my work and do that as well as I can.

I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.

I like things that are beaten up, that have lived a little. I like things that are real. I like things that are made out of wood or string. I never feel very responsive to plastic machinery.

The craft, the writing of a song, is about creating a story, a life story, a world within three minutes, but that's the frame, if you like, the picture frame. That fascinates me.

People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.

Most of the stuff that I do talk about, about being counted out and being an underdog, 'cause that's what I feel like I am.

First off, I think nudity is taken differently in America, though they did make a fuss in England, too.