The orchestra's an amazing instrument, but I don't want to just arrange my songs for it. I think that might be kind of boring and a little bit overdramatic, perhaps. I'm still just having too much fun doing it my way, for the time being.

What's cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesn't. I like that elusiveness.

I think life is a wondrous thing. I'm happy to try pretty hard.

Music as a social conduit has always been important to me.

Some of my earlier songs are kind of more about mental illness.

The problem is, when you're working with orchestras, you only get the orchestra for about two hours before the performance to pull it all together, and that doesn't sound like a real collaboration.

The anti-aging advert that I would like to see is a baby covered in cream saying, 'Aah, I've used too much'