There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.

I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.

I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.

I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.

I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters.