It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don't sell that many records.

Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I'm struggling all the way through to think, "What is it I like about this? What is the personality of this thing I'm hearing that I like so much?" And it's nearly always a sort of mixed emotion, which is why I like it. It's something that I have mixed feelings about in the sense that it's both, say, placid and dangerous, or bitter and sweet, or dark and bright.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.

Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.