Even when I haven't had money, I found money to travel. It's a luxury that's a kind of necessity, I think.

The husk could be some useless bloke or losing myself and changing my DNA with bottomless grief.

I get told I'm a confessional songwriter, which gets on my tits because I think of negative connotations attached to the word "confessional". I don't like the idea of songwriting being therapy. I don't want to put myself so directly in the foreground.

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.

At about the age of ten, my friends and I discovered the joys of sitting in graveyards drinking merrydown cider and kissing and stealing our elder siblings' records.

When I'm on a roll nothing makes me happier or feel more satisfied, like plugging in, life makes sense.

I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.