I can't help it if I stretch the truth, not if that's the way it happened.

I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that's gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly.

Just like any songwriter, I love it when people sing my songs.

I can't help it if I stretch the truth, not if that's the way it happened.

I've got kids now and they will constantly pull you into the here and now - they are very present and very vivid.

Weave me a rope from this dark despair, from this dull-eyed pain... Weave me a rope from this endless night, from this distant shore... Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.

There are some songs where I'll have had the music for 20 years and then finally the lyric will come through. That's not common but it does happen. Then there are other songs that come really quickly.