Being Chronically Shy I Needed To Create

In A Song You Can Kind Of Stage-manage Everything So That It Puts You In A Good Light. And Once A Song Is Recorded, It Always Performs Well.

I Think That's What All Art Is For - For People To Express What It Is To Be Human. That's The Purpose Of It.

You Don't Often Hear People Say, 'oh, Since He's Been Taking Them Drugs, He's Such A Nice Person! He's Really Come Out Of His Shell, He's Really Nice, He's Blossomed'.

Often People Poopoo Melody As If It's A Cheap Trick To Make People Like Things, But In My Experience It's The Hardest Part Of The Tune, To Find Something That Doesn't Immediately Remind You Of Something That's Happened Before.

I Love The Beatles. I Haven't Named Any Kids After Them But I Still Really Love Them. They Were The First Group That I Was Ever Properly Aware Of. In My Early Teens I Would Sometimes Stay In And Listen To The Radio All Day In The Hope That I Would Catch A Song By Them That I'd Never Heard Before And Be Able To Tape It On My Radio-cassette Player.