I still miss the days when a haircut was just a haircut. It was only your mates you had to face. Now there's a whole industry centred around people analysing your 'look'. I just cannot understand how anyone could get so worked up by... hair.

I think each thing in a way acts as a stepping - stone for whatever the next thing is.

I saw that something changed in terms of the way I approach writing. I don't know. Before, everything was just sort of pieced together; and more and more nowadays I'll have complete songs - chords, lyrics, a melody - and we'll apply to those songs what we feel is required. That has happened much more on Humbug album than on any of the others.

Every time you write a song, you're looking for some sort of perfection, and you never quite reach it. You're always looking for that extra missing piece.

Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries.

Love's not only blind but deaf.

I've come to recognize songwriting as something that I do, and I want to be good at that. At that craft, if you like. I want to practice it.