I want to change and try new ideas - allowing your sonic identity to evolve in your music and not being afraid of that. You see musicians hit upon something that works, and then go, "Let's keep doing that for 10 years." And that idea kind of terrifies me a little bit. It becomes like a day job then.

There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.

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!

I have always been fascinated by the concept of the villain and the hero being in one person.

Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party.

It's fine to indulge yourself so long as you don't try and foist it on the rest of the world.

It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.