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.

Drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckless, and that's the trouble.

What hurts people a lot is taking humiliation.

Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs.

I consider myself a sit-down comedian really, as much as anything else. I love comedy. Life is a cosmic joke.

We've all got to earn a living. And writing songs is what I do. But when I've done a record, it's not that I think it's better or worse than anyone else's, but if I think that nobody else would have done it if I hadn't, well then that's ok.

The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.