Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.

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

Like trillions of others, if it wasn't for Bob Dylan, it would have been a different musical landscape. Pop music wouldn't have been my thing at all. I did also grow up listening to The Beatles, but I never thought of being a Beatle.

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.

In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.

I could never be a professional comedian, 'cause you have to keep telling the same jokes. For me, they're like word solos.

After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.