When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important that everybody gets on because you're in close proximity a great deal of the time.

All your travelling is together, you eat together, you're on stage as a band together, when you get to the sound-check the band and the crew are all together.

Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.

I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.

Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song.

Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it.

It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.

This band - because this is myself on electric and acoustic guitars - we've done three tours together now and I really, really like it which is why I did the DVD as well.

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

Whichever age you are, that's the best age. I'm a very "now" person.

I am not in love / But I'm open to persuasion.

Real, lasting closure is never secured through retribution or retaliation.

All Communist Parties, upon attaining power, have become completely merciless. But at the stage before they achieve power, it is necessary to use disguises.

... I had always written but I never took it seriously. It was a way of life, not a living.

Hey now, none of that. You know I don't have one evil bone in my body. Only two hundred and six of them?

When people don't take time out, they stop being productive.

When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.

The human dilemma is this: God is Holy and we are not. God is Righteous and we are not.

True enjoy stories never ever have endings.

Men have better self-images than women. You know what I've never seen in a men's magazine? A makeover.

Everyone knows it takes a woman nine months to have a baby. But you Americans think if you get nine women pregnant, you can have a baby in a month.