Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren`t hits. You have a career, the reason why we`re still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

My life isn`t necessarily more important than anyone else`s: I`m just better in talking about it.

All my songs are where I am.

When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.

For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn`t mean you`re fantastic.

There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.

If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.

But what you realise after you`ve been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don`t have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.