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I'm not an actor, and I'll never call myself an actor. I've never thought of it as part of my life. I'll always be a singer, in my eyes.

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

And I've always loved playing solo.

You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings.

What happens to us all, I think, when we pick up a pen, is that we just become snobs.

I guess in a way I just feel blessed to be able to make music.

I won't say I've closed the door on acting.

Do I create conflicts for myself? Sure I do.

Keeping the pen out of your hand as much as possible is the best way to write a song, in my estimation. But the pen must come in to tighten it up.

Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.

If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.

Our imagination it is our greatest ally ... Imagination is a very, very powerful thing. It literally invents the path before you.

There are people who can sit down and write a song about any given subject, and they can do it really, really well.

I busked from the age of 13 until I was 18.

Well, everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking.

I absolutely adore the alchemy of a bit of an idea.

I've realized, you know, having turned 40, that rest is just as important as work. In fact, it's equally as important.

A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.

My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that's there. I want to get it all out.

I've always felt that if I ever got cynical, I would have to stop making music because I'd just be poisoning the air.