I also spend a lot of time on political blogs, and music blogs getting things for my radio show.

Each of my records has a different focus, a different theme.

I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though.

There's nothing remotely interesting to me about marketing music as a product.

People are essentially losing their temper for things that have nothing to do with the act of driving.

You can't get away from who you are I guess.

My feeling is that nuclear is a distraction. It stops us doing what we all know we need to do invest urgently in renewables.

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.

They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad... Sometimes it feels a little raw to be putting so much of myself out there.

I probably had the most fun recording For Richer For Poorer in Nashville.

I have always abhorred the business end of music.

Poets, you always write about women worth dying for. Write, for a change, something about the ones worth living for!

I have a suspicious mind, and murder is kind of my business.

I experience the age I am now as an age at which I must ensure that I already am what I insist or believe I am going to be.

Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.

There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers.

Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.

Nothing is perfect in God's perfect plan.

I had a nice dinner. I let the evening unfold, flow. I like to sit in a chair with a wine glass. When I woke up, I thought, 'Why didn't I go to bed at 11?' I came back at 3 and went to bed at 5.

Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.