There's a lot of sub-conscious stuff you may write but you don't then suddenly sit down and take out your analytical books and say: I'm determined to find out where this came from. You'd probably be wrong anyway.

I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.

The way I was singing the songs was jazz

If my heart could do my thinking, would my brain begin to feel?

Whether you're writing a book or a song or whatever, you've got to be involved in it. It's got to come from the heart I think...that's what it's all about.

There's quite a few people getting into that - new acts coming along that are using a lot of stuff that happened in the 50s and 60s. They're completely ignoring the 70s which is kind of a turn on because to me nothing has really gone down in the 70s.

It's all complete instinct and intuition, and that's extremely difficult to teach.