I've always been able to get inside a song really easily, and if it's my song, I can make it seem honest.

Well, there's not a day goes by when I don't get up and say thank you to somebody.

If the father is not straight naider will be the son.

I can't do that wonderful thing that Tom Waits and Bob Dylan do - to do imagery. I'm not good at that. I just write from the heart.

Because of my pride in my Scottish heritage, I used to say things like 'I don't mind buying a round of drinks but I don't buy two'. It was something I joked about which has come back to bite me on the ----. I'm shrewd about money, I invest well, and look after it. But it's in my nature to be generous. I look after people.

When the one you love is in love with someone else, don't you know it's torture, I mean it's living hell.

Surely if God had meant us to do yoga, he would have put our heads behind our knees.