My dad got me a chemistry book one Christmas and I burnt the garden shed down. I remember there was the most beautiful smell forever after in the remains.

When I first started writing, a friend said I should be careful because I'm letting people know how to reach right in and play with my workings. And they do!

You can have all sorts of relationships, but there's something with musicians working together where you can have relationship that can just continue to grow in a beautiful way.

We're all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each generation finds new materials. Its just evolution, isn't it?

To me songwriting is more like redemption. I can extract the poison or the pollen, the essence from a situation and the rest becomes a husk that blows away.

Therapy is like telling your nightmares when you're a kid; they lose their power to hurt and control.

I'm not comfortable holidaying in other people's poverty.