My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

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.

My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to. I wanted to hear music that had not yet happened, by putting together things that suggested a new thing which did not yet exist.

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they're not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work, I could easily write a very convincing sort of account of it that made it look like I had planned it all out from day one and that this led logically to that and then I did this and then that followed quite naturally from that. But that's not how it felt.

In my normal life I'm a very unadventurous person.