I'll sing over some chords, searching, what does [the music] conjure up, where's the melody taking you? I deliberate over the lyrics, I really do. I'll come up with one line in a day, and then it might be a couple of days before I come up with the rhyming line. It's never been easy for me.

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

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

You got amphetamine eyes.

What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.

Songwriting's never been a natural art for me; it's always been a bit of a struggle.

You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.