To My Undying Shame, I

Love Songs Come In Many Guises And Are Seemingly Written For Many Reasons – As Declarations Or To Wound – I Have Written Songs For All Of These Reasons – But Ultimately The Love Songs Exist To Fill, With Language, The Silence Between Ourselves And God, To Decrease The Distance Between The Temporal And The Divine.

The Secret To Longevity In The Music Business Is To Change, And To Be Able To Change. [...] An Actor Has To Assume Other People's Identities. A Rock Star Doesn't Need To Do That. [...] But Change Is Important.

There Are Times When I Think I Can Sing It Better, But Usually I Find That I Can't.

I've Had To Try And Find A Way Over The Years Of Writing Narratively That Doesn't Really Require You To Sit Down And Work Out What The Story's About. You're Brought Into A Sort Of Sequence Of Images That Have That Emotional Resonance, But It's Kind Of Irrelevant What The Actual Story Is. It's Taken Me Maybe 13 Albums Or Something To Work That Out.

The Blues Is Instilled In Every Musical Cell That Floats Around Your Body.