I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?

When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.

Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.

See the ridiculous in everything.

The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period in 1973 or '74, I saw him, Thin Lizzy and the Rolling Stones. I wasn't really a big Rory Gallagher fan, but I thought his guitar playing was fabulous. But Thin Lizzy, they were fabulous.

I'm in the strange position of the world drifting away from me, but you know what? I'm actually quite content with that. It doesn't bother me in the slightest. I don't feel like, 'Oh God, I'm being left behind.'

I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.