I've Had My Fills Of Cocaine And

I Can't Think Of Anything Until I've Got Printed Words In Front Of Me. I Never Wake Up In The Middle Of The Night With A Song In My Head.

It's So Easy To Write Songs About Misery And Hard Times And Sadness. It's Much More Difficult To Write Songs About Happy And Chirpy Stuff.

Make This Man A Saint Now, Ok?

That's Just A Part Of Being An Artist: You Can't Write Great Stuff All The Time, Because If You Did, Then You'd Be Inhuman. The Human Side Of People Is That Sometimes They Fail.

I Just Go Into The Studio, Look At The Lyrics For The First Time When I Put Them On The Piano, And Go. If I Haven't Got It Within 40 Minutes, I Give Up. It's Never Changed, The Thrill Has Never Gone, Because I Don't Know What I'm Going To Get Next.