There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

I get slightly irritated by people who say they're natural rebels because it just means that they're going to be against whatever anybody does, which is almost like saying you might as well leave it as it is.

When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.

People have habits about what they think songs should be like. There's the folky thing of: "Poor me, I'm a sensitive person in a cruel world." Or the pop thing of: "Hey, look at me, I'm sexy."

I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so.

What hurts people a lot is taking humiliation.

There are a lot of composers who were fantastic, but I challenge them to write a record that you could play five times a day for two months on the radio, songs that people will want to dance to on a Saturday night.