I'd rather have a strong career, playing and selling records to a loyal audience, then having one record that exploded. That would be devastating.

You can't really come into a concept record objectively, because you immediately associate it with Yes, stuff from the 1970s that punk rock kicked against, the pretentiousness.

I like all sorts of things, not necessarily just Victorian. Even though I tend to read a lot of Victorian novels, I like a lot of contemporary stuff.

I pretty much draw the line when people want you to do original music for commercials.

I was in school for literature, and read so many 19th century and early 20th century novels that it was hard to break out of that and read an average Jeanette Winterson book or something.

No-one wants to hear anything spoken in earnest anymore, unless it happens to involve unrequited, teenage love.

All instruments sound fantastic in a church.