I still think of myself as from Illinois.

I'm much better at fixing or changing a melody to suit me than I would a lyric. But for me, everything is lyric. It has to be true for me to say it.

I never had any big dreams about doing something on a huge scale.

Songs come from all over the place. You can't predict what you're going to like. You might like something that doesn't fit right now. What was working for you at one point, something you've loved for years and years, when you get together with everybody, you think, this doesn't match up with what's going on with you personally.

Growing up I used to love bands like Free and ELO and the Rolling Stones. When Robert Plant got in touch it made perfect sense to me.

I love being in the world of the unknown.

I don't get recognised in London or at home either - very seldom anyway. Either that or I look so crazy no one wants to come up to me.