I think in life everyone needs to be broken in some way.

I don't think you have to struggle to make good art. I think you have to be passionate to make good art. You have to believe in what you're doing. It just comes from when you lie awake at night.

I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.

I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

I never talk about my wife: we're both in public professions but we try to keep our private life private.

I think when you're as talented as me or you, you don't need to have an ego. On a serious note, the people I most admire in the world in my field have never shown that much ego to me.

Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it's out there in the world it's no longer ours.