Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song to another.
I don't have the genetic make up of a frontman, but I'm learning how to do it.
In business, you can have one massive success that earns $50 million overnight, and that's it. You're successful. End of story. But in the music business, you have to keep on doing it.
My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think.
Every album I've ever been involved in, on the day that it came out I believed in it.
My kids have got to work themselves around my life, not the other way. That's how kids become brats, if you're there staring at them all the time going, 'Are you alright?'
Tony Blair is a brilliant politician. Unfortunately, his legacy is entwined with George W. Bush because of Iraq.
I don't like being on television when I'm playing live. I don't even like being on Jools Holland or any of them programs.
I started off as many fathers do. I enjoyed the good bits, but I was wary of the responsibility. But now I love being a dad.
If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.
There's no reason, ever, to be late. Or early.
When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.
When I'm doing music and I'm on the road, I love it. But once I'm home, it's very difficult to go back out on the road.
I go into Daunt Books in Marylebone every couple of weeks. My wife Sara demolishes books, but I only buy stuff occasionally. I like boys' things, spies and the Cold War.
Frontmen come alive when they come onstage.
When you're in a band and there's five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every song.
You don't have to be great to be successful. Look at Phil Collins.