I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think..

Being real is what is important..

I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience..

I can make no apologies for following my heart..

But it is really, really fun to just change it up some and to absolutely be a very small spoke on a big wheel, and to just be a part of that and cont….

Well, I'm English, so it's intimidating to step anywhere. I used to be painfully shy. I wouldn't say that I'm painfully shy anymore. But if I have th….

I love what I'm doing most of the time, but it's hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show part….

Every time I try to disown that concept for myself, which is a really healthy perspective, they bring it back all the time. It's so serious and so re….

I was in rock music in London when it was the height of Brit pop, with The Kinks revival and Suede and Blur and Oasis, and all of those really great ….

I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like h….

I'd love a drug that was good for you, I was thinking about ecstacy with Vitamin B..

Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration..

Most people who are on the road are pretty damaged. It's an escapist's life. It's not a life that forces you to look in the mirror at where you're at….

Those times when I play on stage in front of lots of people, it's such an unusual and borderline unhealthy process, even though I love it and I reall….

Women are part of the reason for washing and keeping clean, aren't they?.

I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completel….

There's nothing worse than someone coming up to me and going Oh God, I really love your hair..

The person I love would never wear fur. Fur just makes me think of shallow women who have no conscience. The fur industry belongs to a time when peop….

I am really addicted to music..

Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called tal….

The day before I left to fly in New York, I went in the ocean and was just lying on my black looking up at the sky, which was that Hawaii blue. Just ….