Recently I heard some children singing “Mellow Yellow” – well, they were singing: “They call me smelly belly.” And I thought: “You know you’ve had some effect when your song becomes a street song for kids.” Like Dylan Thomas, who fell in love with the sound of words, I think the sound of the words themselves is music. “Wear Your Love Like Heaven” was something someone said to me. I don’t sit down to write like you’d sit down to make a pair of boots. It’s where the roots of the music are, it’s where the tradition comes from, and it’s the last wilderness of Europe. I now live in Ireland for half the year, and have a life and studio in Mallorca. It is up to us to realise where the fear is coming from, and to conquer it. In the long run, food, shelter and clothing are all we can do to help each other. There’s that great Beatles line: “For the benefit of Mr Kite, there will be a show tonight…” It’s light-hearted, but so exciting. My sense of humour comes from the Irish side. The songs I write and sing try to say important things with a lightness. It wasn’t all just fun and games, the 1960s, but I have a light touch. I was the first British pop singer to be arrested for possession That’s a feeling of: “I want you to be fulfilled, and if you are fulfilled, I’m fulfilled.” And this third kind of love needs a bit of work – some conscious effort. There’s emotional love: “I love you,” Aphrodite’s love – the basis of it all. There’s intuitive love: that which a child feels, which makes you reach out to help someone.
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