A daily blog would just about finish me off completely.

I was young - I was 20 years old. Now I have the gift of perspective and I feel pretty good about it.

I was competing for attention in a four-piece band that was phenomenal, and I was trying to attack the blues from a kind of white English viewpoint as a singer.

Boredom is a horrible thing.

There's a constant conflict, really, within me. As much as I really enjoy what I do at home... I play on my own little soccer team and I've been taking part in the community and living the life of any ordinary guy, I always find myself wistful and enveloped in a feeling I can't really get out of my system.

I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone.

You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you