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I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.

I've learned that people latch onto labels and stereotypes. There was a period when I was asked in every single interview how I liked being the new Frank Sinatra... I think people will soon realize that I do a lot more than interpret old songs.

Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I think the ordinary guy has just as much right to say 'This is a good song' as somebody who is in the music business.

I understand what songs like 'Mr Brightside' mean to people. They will last forever.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.

It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning.

I sometimes don't know what songs are about for several years after I've written them.

The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.