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" I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs. "

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" I'm addicted to working. I mean, I have a list of 100 countries I want to play in. I'm basically killing myself by travelling so much, for no reason whatsoever. "

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" Once I'd heard 'Modern Times' by Bob Dylan, it really changed the way I wanted to make records. "

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" The great thing about small children is they're portable, so we take them everywhere, but when it comes to 2015, Zachary's going to school, and I want to be there to drop him off and pick him up. I don't want to just be the father who reads them a bedtime story. "

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" I mean, Sting is one of my great buddies and I love him to death. "

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" If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything. Songs will outlast the artist and they will go on for ever if they are good. "

" I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them. "

" I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever. "

" When I say I don't have to write pop songs anymore, there's no way I'm going to get on the radio at 60 years of age unless I'm doing a duet with Gaga or I was on 'All of the Lights,' which was a Kanye West record that managed to get on the radio. "

" I am so in the past. I'm such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano. "

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" My mum always used to buy a record every Friday. "

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" I love every minute of fatherhood, staying up all night, changing nappies, kids crying, I find it really funny and inspiring. It connects you to the world in a new way. "

" I've got to do something to make up for all those self-absorbed and selfish years when I just, you know, was taking drugs, sitting in my room, doing bad things, whatever. "