When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And that can be fun - it depends how much of an exhibitionist you are, I suppose. I quite enjoy it.

There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now.

To see both sides of a quarrel, is to judge without hate or alarm

There is in fact a controversy over Darwin's theory. Clearly both theories have religious implications. But this is not about God.

Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.

All audiences should be slightly off balance.

I'm glad I can do both full-band electric and solo acoustic performances. It's nice to have contrast, so if you get fed up with one, you can just switch to the other one. It's great to go to a town and play an acoustic show, and then you can come back a year later and play electric, and the show's really fairly different. The repertoire will be 50 percent different. The musical energy is completely different.