I've always listened to jazz or folk or blues. I was always listening to the prophets. I don't really go for...I don't know how to say anything about the singles scene without slamming people.

I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

I think that there are quite a few acts which have stayed with the basic feelings and that's good. And I see something of a swing back to that. For example there are quite a few people copying my early stuff now. Like it's become a reference point or something.

I was just getting tired of the image bullshit...that man of mystery trip and what have you. What's that all about?

I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.

I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.

A lot of things come together to make up a song. It's just images.