If I find something I like, I'll chase it and see what comes out the other side. Once a song gets momentum and gets away from you, that's a good sign.

I was regularly advised not to go into music, that I should give up that foolish dream.

What I want is what I've not got, but what I need is all around me.

I'm from a very politically and socially conscious family. My mother always made a point of making us look at what was going on around us and take stock of our part in it.

I use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means.

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.

In your eyes, I see what's on my mind.