Time and time again I can't please myself.

If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...

When you're young and you play music, you have a peer group, you come out of a scene. There's a lot of people you know, and then you have some success, and it all goes away.

You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.

But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.

Losing fights, or even winning fights, can be heartbreaking, and you can throw that away, but the truth is that it does make our lives better.

You don't understand what makes you understand what makes your life better until you take something that makes it so much worse and you embrace that.