I would find the idea of compiling a setlist that doesn't wildly excite me to be too restricting.

I don't want to get too involved in marketing budgets, online promotions and download set-ups because it would be a bit like Gertrude Stein mapping out a TV campaign. I want to sing. I want visibility. I am essentially Al Martino, not Seymour Stein.

I have no idea where my pathetic nature comes from. If I thought about it too long, it would depress me.

For me to think in terms of employing security seems ostentatious.

The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.

When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.