People from the past always seem to have much more time to create beautiful, intricate, delicate things that often reach the future in a kind of curled-up, capsized state.

I've never been burdened with a hit record, so I don't have to play the same songs. I play songs people think they like.

I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.

One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.

The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and everybody knew who the Daleks were and there was The Beatles and everybody knew who George Harrison was.

If you make money back from your record, you're doing it smart. It's an expensive hobby. I'm lucky enough to still make a living as a musician through live work and odd bits of royalties.

I think The Beatles are the lasting influence on me, even more so than Dylan.