Yes, it's a very difficult thing to do, to promote a record, do television shows, and to still want to remain private, it's really quite difficult to explain to people what you're trying to do. I mean I'd actually quite like to be a recluse, but you know, you've got to promote the record as well.

Love Comes Quickly is our favourite record ever, and it did really badly.

Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me.

Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera.

House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all.

I always have a very strong sense of shaming oneself, and you can do that a lot in the public eye, so it's best avoided at all costs I think.

I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait 'til it's finished, because you make excuses all the time: 'Well, there's gonna be an orchestra on it.' Rather than make excuses, wait 'til it's finished, and then they can say they don't like it.