I can be stupid in my lyrics or say whatever I want without having to worry about anybody else's feeling or anybody being embarrassed by it or anything like that.

My songs form a kind of biography or diary of my life as they are about people I have loved and people I only knew in my heart, places I have seen only for a moment and places I have lived all my life.

I was born in Swindon... a place that always looked west. I found that wherever I go I love to have a room with a view of the western sky. My late brother and I, when we were small, had a room at the back of the house that overlooked the sunset; and both for he and I it was kind of magical.

Like our drummer Graeme (Edge) said, 'I couldn't bear to see the others go on with out ya,' ... So you got to stay in there until the end, really.

I sometimes don't know what songs are about for several years after I've written them.

And if you stop and think about it You won't believe it's true: That all the love you've been giving Has all been meant for you