It Strikes Me There's A Bunch Of

In Scotland, Beautiful As It Is, It Was Always Raining. Even When It Wasn't Raining, It Was About To Rain, Or Had Just Rained. It's A Very Angry Sky.

I Sit Around And Play Acoustic Guitar - Usually Acoustic, Sometimes Electric, Occasionally Piano, But More Often Guitar, Just Trying To Come Up With Tunes. Ideas Kind Of Pop Into Your Head.

I Suppose Ever Since I Was About 14, I Remember Listening To "sgt. Pepper's," And I Remember Thinking, "how Do You Possibly Write Songs Like That?" I Remember Starting To Try And Write Songs Around That Age, But Just Sitting Around With An Acoustic Guitar, And Try To Come Up With Ideas For Songs, And That's Just What I've Done Ever Since. I Just Never Really Stopped Doing That, I Suppose.

I Tried Talking To Jesus, But He Just Put Me On Hold.

As You Get Older You Don't Want To Just Do The Same Thing, Otherwise There's Not Much Point. I Think It's More Or Less Trying To Write Things That, Perhaps, Say More By Doing Less, Or You're Always Trying To Refine Things, Make Things A Little Simpler, A Little More Essential.