I Am The Captain Of My Pain.

I Was About 12 Years Old And I Was Sitting Watching The Television And It Was Some Kind Of Talent Show, You Know, And On Marches This Monkey, This Ape, In A Pair Of Red-checked Trousers With A Little Matching Jacket Holding A Ukelele And It Started Jigging Around Playing It, And It Was Looking Straight Into The Camera, Straight At Me, And I Remember Thinking, That's It, That'll Be Me, You Know, That'll Be Me.

The Way I Take In The World Is By Seeing It; That Is Very Much Evident In The Songs That I Write.

You Searched Through All My Poets, From Sappho Through To Auden, I Saw The Book Fall From Your Hands, As You Slowly Died Of Boredom.

That's What I Like About Watching A Movie: You Enter An Imagined World That's More Interesting, More Engaging Than Your Own. Or Less Painful Than Your Own.

A Is For Answering All Your Prayers, N Is For Knowing That Your Loverman's Going To Be The Answer.