It strikes me there's a bunch of people in power who have really strong intentions of running the world and adjusting the world to exactly how they see it.

I do like writing songs in a band. When it's rock, it's such a different kind of dynamic, obviously.

I tend to write, either myself, or I sometimes write with a co-writer, my friend that lives up the road. It's usually a relatively solitary thing, but I do like coming up with ideas.

It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through.

My mother features quite heavily in a lot of my songs.

In Scotland, beautiful as it is, it was always raining. Even when it wasn't raining, it was about to rain, or had just rained. It's a very angry sky.

Most people remember me for a couple of tunes.