People are talking about immigration, emigration and the rest of the fucking thing. It’s all fucking crap. We’re all human beings, we’re all mammals, we’re all rocks, plants, rivers. Fucking borders are just such a...

Here a tower shining brightOnce stood gleaming in the nightWhere now There’s just the rubble in the holefrom “White City

I drink because I’m thirsty.

I’ve been here all the time; I could be putting out as many albums as Costello, y’know what I mean?

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

Petitions are ridiculous.

What I do is I’m a bandleader, frontman, entertainer.

When I’m writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.