People who are very confident in themselves aren't hurt by criticism. They make use of it.

I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

Some people are very good at being 'stars' and it suits them. I'm grudging about it and I find it annoying.

The tools are evolving, and people's interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness. That isn't what they would describe what they're doing, but the fact is they make a virtue of the sort of hand-made nature of what they're doing.

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.