Anyone can play an instrument if you show them how to move their limbs, lips or fingers the right way. It's irrelevant. What is relevant is personality, energy, creativity and disturbing sense of humour.

You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.

Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.

You can always have it better. If you try... [This is the right attitude:] Never to feel [completely] satisfied, always to want to do something better!

Maybe 'Can't Stop Feeling' and 'Turn It On' we'll just release as singles. It's a thing The Beatles used to do which I really loved, the idea of releasing something as a single completely on its own.

I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.

I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.