I was obsessed with country music when I was a kid, and it's definitely had a huge influence on the way I write songs. I was always attracted to song….

Even for the people in the business who are real music lovers it's really about putting things in the right boxes, and my style doesn't fit into a bo….

The songs are definitely all about me. I am my favourite subject..

I love the sad songs with their maudlin, self-deprecating, almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman, they make a lot of sense..

I went to a boarding school when I was 13, and it was a very arty school, so there was an opportunity for a lot more. I joined a band and so on. We w….

Any kind of creativity is not settling down into a happy little space. I don't try to be mellow or anything. I think I have quite... my voice is what….

I remember writing 'The One I Can't Have' at the kitchen table. I was looking at a picture of Truman Capote with Marilyn Monroe and that's where I st….

Most artists never get a chance to be Picasso, but that doesn't mean you would stop painting..

I'm a hybrid-genre person, which a lot of people find confusing. I grew up listening to American country music and rock n' roll made between 1955 and….

The state of radio is not great. It's like playing the lottery. The chances of hitting are mind boggling slim..

I do think it's probably true to a certain extent that you tend to sing music that fits your voice. If you're Lou Reed, you're unlikely to become a c….

I'm never worried about being upstaged. I love to have the best, most individual people come in and see if we hit on something..

My career could've been anything, I just wasn't that good at other things. I'd say it was fairly easy starting out as I did in LA, meeting some great….

For a long time I was trying to be poppier and younger. I didn't want to be on public radio or do any of that stuff for older people. Then I realized….

I used to listen to my dad a lot as a way of trying to be close to him, as well, because my parents were divorced and I didnt spend that much time wi….

Everyone's different, but it was fun for me to work with Garth Hudson. He's from 'The Band.' They are a massive influence, that was a big thrill. He'….

It's what is strange about doing a job that is also the thing you love, the thing you feel passionate about. People get to the point where they're bu….

I vacillate between feeling grateful for what I have in such hard times for the music business and being frustrated that I haven't moved up more quic….

I came from a folk-family background. Although we weren't really the all-singing, all-dancing-around-the-piano folkies or anything like that, there i….

Internet radio stations like KCRW do take you everywhere, yet thats just one of a hundred small things you have to do to succeed. It used to be, if y….

I think I'm too cynical for L.A. My sense of humor doesn't go down well here, which probably affects my love life. I need to have a laugh track follo….