Each time I play a song it seems more real.

If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you.

It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa.

I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.

Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

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 entirely approve the measures proposed by you in relation to the Marines who are lately captives in Tripoli. Therefore execute them.