After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring.

Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.

Let's be honest. You let yourself be pulled in because it felt good to be wanted, needed. But then it went too far, as projected images always do. If it's not a real image, but one that has been projected on to you, then you can keep up the masquerade for only so long before the mask cracks and the paint on the mask peels away.

I know people sometimes have this fantasy about Cornwall. But the Cornish are so grounded.

I've been known to throw watermelons, backstage, at people who are giving me news I don't want to hear. But I never aim for the head.

As the sun sets, we've all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.

To me glamour isn't about being sparkly.