I don't speak anything fluently, but I love picking up languages and I do this Duolingo app. I started when I moved to Sweden, when I was about 19, 20. I really loved the language; it was super melodic and really sexy.

I kind of got inspired by [William] Wordsworth and [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge - I went the old traditional way of finding inspiration, I guess.

If something depressing is happening, that's gold. That's the best possible situation you could be in. But if that doesn't happen, you just have to make up stuff - it's more fun because you have more freedom with what you can write about. You can invent characters and situations. It's actually easier.

I take every day as it comes and if I have to be somewhere, I'll be there.

I prefer darker things and more minimal stuff. I don't like when people just put words on canvases.

If you watch a film without music, there's nothing that you can connect with.

People in London are so much more exposed to danger, or bad things. It took me quite a long time to grow up in that environment.