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

Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.

There is a thread connecting you no matter how far away you are from someone and you know I have two or three relationships in my life that are like that.

I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope

I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited. That gives me energy to want to make new things, and it forces me to hear things in new ways, which then can only help to say things in a new way.

I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in that way.