There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make it last.

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

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

When I first started listening to music intently as a teenager, I was always sitting there with a biro or a pencil, drawing. That's how I absorbed it all.

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.

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 was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him.