Most of my songs are love ballads and things to do with sadness and torture and pain.

If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

I've been in pain, hope it doesn't show. I've been insane, well the time is slow.

Carrying the Beatles or the '60s dream around all your life is like carrying the Second World War and Glenn Miller around. That's not to say you can't enjoy Glenn Miller or the Beatles, but to live in that dream is the twilight zone. It's not living now. It's an illusion.

People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.

The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.