I would be quite happy never to play any of my better-known songs again. But unless you're Dylan, you can't afford to completely disregard what your audience wants.

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

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.

As soon as a norm is established, people start questioning it, which is probably a good thing in the end.

Most comedians I know are quite serious, anxious people who find life rather difficult. As a consequence, they make people laugh.

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

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.