The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!

It's easy to be lazy when there's food lying around backstage or there's a fast-food joint a couple blocks away. But if you walk a little further, ask around a bit, of course there are exciting things to discover.

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

The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?

No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.

You can't write for the cultural environment - if you do that, by the time it comes out, that cultural environment has passed. You have to be aiming for something that's original - that's the only way you can have any kind of impact.