I'm often asked why I don't write songs. There are still hundreds of fantastic songs I want to learn and perform before I try to pen something which is never gonna come close to Bob Dylan's weakest efforts; why should I bother?

Singer-songwriters who only sing their own songs face a great problem; for every great song written there's a hundred that are crap. One guy comes to mind - he's written over 300 songs - but there's only one of them that I sing.