I'm Often Reading A Magazine And Hearing

My Dad Was A Particularly Polite Kind Of Guy, Very Courteous. So When We Got On A Bus, He Would Always Encourage Me And My Younger Brother To Get Up And Offer Our Seat To An Old Lady. I Grew Up Kind Of Liking That, Thinking, Y'know, That's A Nice Thing, That's A Courtesy.

I Look A Lot Busier Than I Am, As I'm Actually A Rather Sporadic, Random Person And I'll Play A Few Gigs And Then Disappear For A While.

The Pound Is Sinking, The Peso's Failing, The Lira's Reeling, And Feeling Quite Appalling.

But With Writers, There's Nothing Wrong With Melancholy. It's An Important Color In Writing.

People Think Once You Get Famous And Rich You Move Out Of The Public Sphere And You Have Nothing Left To Write About. I've Heard That - Bruce Springsteen Was This Real Street Boy, Now He's Got This Big House. How Does That Compute? If You Don't Look At The Material Side Of Someone's Life, If You Look At More The Emotional Side, There's Always A Wealth Of Stuff To Write About.