Real sadness is such an all-encompassing intense thing that it takes you out of your humdrum existence. If you can still function, you want to show it while it's peaking. So when people tell you to cheer up, it's not always the best thing.

I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction?

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

When you fall in love, you feel like a missing piece of a puzzle that's been found.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

We do express our emotions, our reactions to events, breakups and infatuations, but the way we do that - the art of it - is in putting them into prescribed forms or squeezing them into new forms that perfectly fit some emerging context. That’s part of the creative process, and we do it instinctively; we internalize it, like birds do. And it’s a joy to sing, like the birds do.