I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.

I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question.

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

I was a latecomer to politics. Maybe I'm just very slow. I got to everything when everyone else had left.

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.

I do think there are deep structural things that are wrong in the world.

I'm not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing.