When you've done something, certainly if you create a piece of music, you then hear it with fresh ears when you play it for somebody else.

Did you see the frightened ones, Did you hear the falling bombs, Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter in the promise of a brave new world unfurlled beaneath the clear blue skies. Good bye blue skies.

You run and you run to catch up to the sun but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again.

When you've done something, certainly if you create a piece of music, you then hear it with fresh ears when you play it for somebody else.

We are all brothers and sisters under the skin and above it . . . it's super important that we stop lobbing bombs over the top of the wall and start trying to dismantle it, so that we can say 'hi' to whoever is on the other side, whether the divide is religious or nationalistic or politic or economic.

You take the risk of being rejected. If you have pretentions to be an artist of any kind, you have to take the risk of people rejecting you and thinking you're an arsehole.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.