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.

I feel I have the potential to reach an audience beyond anything I can imagine.

Doctor Doctor what is wrong with me This supermarket life is getting long What is the heart life of a colour TV What is the shelf life of a teenage queen

I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else has released in me an ability to write in other ways apart from songs.

I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.

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.

I don't really listen to Radiohead. I listened to the albums and they just didn't move me in the way, say, John Prine does. His is just extraordinarily eloquent music.