For the last 12 years, I've felt really privileged to be living such a normal life. It's so a part of who I am. It's so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. Friends of mine in the business don't know how dishwashers work. For me, that's frightening. I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being. Even more so now where you've got this sort of truly silly preoccupation with celebrities. Just because somebody's been in an ad on TV, so what? Who gives a toss?

There was a story that some EMI execs had come down to see you and you'd said something like: 'Here's what I've been working on,' and then produced some cakes …

I think quotes are very dangerous things.

There were so many times I thought, 'I'll have the album finished this year, definitely, we'll get it out this year.' Then there were a couple of years where I…

Your thought advocates fame and show. Mine counsels me and implores me to cast aside notoriety and treat it like a grain of sand cast upon the shore of eternit…

I don't want, no I really don't want To be John Lennon or Leonard Cohen I just want to be my Dad.

This is Davey. I'm not special.