Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don't look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.

When I write a song, I see a tunnel, and then the chorus is an open space, or the bassline is doing this shape. I see songs as a more of a geometric, spacial experience.

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

I don't really have an ego. I'm not that bothered.

Love is a two way dream.

I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It's an emergency.

For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.