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

Music should be universal. My life perspective, my lifestyle - I'm not going to impose that on the people that listen to my music. That's kind of a perverse form of snobbery I like to reject.

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

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

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.

Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.

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