For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.
Invariably, guitar players that go solo make really bad records.
The most interesting ideas definitely come at night.
Without music I would never, ever have travelled anywhere.
My favourite thing in the world, apart from my wife and kids, is writing songs. Ever since I was a kid.
It broke my heart when my first band split up. I was 25 and we'd been together since we were 15. But it had to happen. There was a point when I knew I had to move on.
Words are where most change begins.
In the old days, people would gather around the fire, or they would gather at a tavern, and they'd tell a story. And then, maybe a week later, someone would tell the same story, but with a different twist on it. That's how folk takes evolved.
What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise?
Is this not enough? This blessed sip of life Is it not enough? Staring down at the ground Then complain and pray for more from above Greedy little pig