There's a little Christmas in all of us, I guess. Even in me.

Who told you I was a musician?

The blues ain't nothing but a good man feelin' bad.

I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange location in history, which are minstrel shows.

I'm sad and blue, about nobody but you. I told you that I loved you right from the start, you told me the same and now you try to break my little heart.

The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.

Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow.

I've got a very behind-the-scenes personality. I don't know how I became a performer. I like to stay discreet, out of the public eye, very low-key.

The silence between the notes is the good part for me. I find that to be a very important part of music that is often lacking.

It can even be a single note which defines the entire song.

What I do and what I record only work for the moment.

Will you stay in Germany?''No. Somewhere different.''Like where?''Somewhere there was no war. Ireland maybe.

The world is thinningand the earth...it's still spinningmy world is thinningand it’s all because of one person I’m missing.

Hush my dear lie still and slumber! Holy angels guard they bed! Heavenly blessings without number Gently falling on thy head.

The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.

Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.

Christ . . . said that a man who had looked after a woman lustfully had sinned as much as the man who had seduced her. How absurd!

Only until you rise above the use of the second attention for manipulation that you can enter into a consciousness in which there is enlightenment.

I think I'm an overly emotional person. I feel a lot, but I don't believe that's unique to me or that's how I am able to do the things I do.

My mom always complains about my lack of a boyfriend. Well, next time she asks, I'm going to tell her I'm dating two different guys-Mr Duracell and Mr Energizer.

I had a nice time over Christmas. I watched EastEnders - blimey, that makes my job look easy!