I'm not speaking as someone who has reached satori or anything else. I'm a student.

For to sit in a room full of books, and remember the stories they told you, and to know precisely where each one is located and what was happening in your life at time or where you were when you first read it is the languid and distilled pleasure of the connoisseur.

Every ripple on the ocean, every leaf on every tree, every sand dune in the desert, every power we never see.

The compass spins between heaven and hell, let your soul be your pilot, let your soul guide you.

I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.

My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.

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.