Every day you have to renew your commitment. Some of the strategies should become habitual over time and not a huge effort.
Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.
I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.
I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.
I'm an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.
But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go.
I think it's something that dawns on you with the most ghastly, inexorable sense. I didn't suddenly wake up in my pram one day and say 'Yippee, I - ', you know. But I think it just dawns on you, you know, slowly, that people are interested in one, and slowly you get the idea that you have a certain duty and responsibility.
How was I ever going to fight the blurring lines in our relationship when I enjoyed being with him so much?
It's been 18 months since I won on the European Tour and to win the flagship event, I could not have asked for any more.
You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil.