In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student... I was always complaining that music education was too academic.

I'm not that keen on fierce dictatorship. I think that sort of the point of working with somebody is them coming up with stuff and feeling free to do that.

I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.

I don't like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick. Everything is so designed and airbrushed and Botoxed, it makes us think, 'Oh, everybody's perfect except me. Everything's smooth except me.' But nothing is smooth.

I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days.

I learned what a lot of women have to do is make the guys in the room think it was their idea, and then you back them up.

Emotions weren’t created to just lie around. You should experience things to the full. I’ve got a sense of the clock ticking. We have to feel all those things to the maximum. Like, I don’t eat a lot but I really love eating. And I like being precise and particular. There is a certain respect in that. If you can do your day depending on how you feel, and enjoy things as well.