When I was younger I was obsessed with writing, so even if I wanted to listen, I didn't have time.

Yesterday I was playing Beethoven's fifth, because I love that.

Right from day one, you know when you’ve written a good song.

When you’re on tour you definitely don’t want lots of arguments. It’s very important that everybody gets on because you’re in close proximity a great deal of the time.

This band – because this is myself on electric and acoustic guitars – we’ve done three tours together now and I really, really like it which is why I did the DVD as well.

It’s a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you’ve written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.

I’ve written what and when I want to. It’s been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge.

I’ve always written in a free, unencumbered way.

In America, you watch TV and think that’s totally unreal, then you step outside and it’s just the same.

That is one of the things about going on tour, that I get to work with some really talented people and it allows me to be able to listen to them as well – and just have fun on stage.