If you play music with passion and love and honesty, then it will nourish your soul, heal your wounds and make your life worth living. Music is its own reward.

I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.

If you love someone, set them free.

I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.

I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.

An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life.