If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.

I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.

It's amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.

Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason.

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.

I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.