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.

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.

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

Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.

A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.

Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.

I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.