My manager said the next best inspiration to heartbreak is travel, and it's true.

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

I love the water more than anything. I'm not very good at sunbathing - I get really bored. I love swimming and I love being like a fish and getting in the sea and just - I don't know, it feels right.

I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to justify his painting.

I've also been writing with my guitarist, Ted Barnes, and he's amazing. Writing with him has taught me a lot about my own writing process, in the sense that it's incredably personal to write with someone else from scratch.

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

I was scared of the Bible - it seemed whenever I read it I got bad luck. Then I befriended a couple of Jesus's disciples and I used to show them modern life - how to run the hot and cold taps and things like that. They seemed alright but it didn't change my feelings about the Bible jinx.