David Bowie is the quintessential English gentleman and, of course, a musical and generational institution. I only played support for him for one night (not a whole tour) but he was incredibly gracious and generous toward me and I've certainly never forgotten it.

I feel like I always have to have a song on my album that people can use in their weddings.

The music that I make isn't really like any of the music that I listen to. I think I listen to cool music, but I know that I don't make cool music - so it's kind of funny!

I'm a bit of a book worm, so a lot of the songs I write are inspired by books.

You don't normally think of Los Angeles as a place to go to get away.

I know my sound, and I have to be true to who I am as an artist, even though I want be real cool, and make really cool music.

I only say this because a lot of people seem to think that if you're a musician you want to be a celebrity. But most musicians in the world aren't celebrities, and pretty much everything about the concept of 'celebrity' is a complete load of bollocks anyhow.