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.

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

Coming out's the hardest part, when you're Queen Elvis.

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 was always jealous of something getting more attention.

I don't really have the gift of the sustained narrative that you need to write a book. I've tried a couple of times, and it just doesn't work. But I get some good passages, so what I'm going to do is just take sections out of them.

Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.