When I was four, I think I just wanted to make noise. When I was about 10 years old I was given five CDs for my birthday: Pink Floyd's 'Dark side of the Moon,' the Sex Pistols, Prodigy, Jimi Hendrix, and I can't remember the fifth one, but really different kinds of music. That's when I started to grasp it and enjoy it, listening to it. Then I started being in bands at school.

I find Spanish really difficult. They speak so quickly, whereas in German it's very clear what they're saying. It's easier to repeat.

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

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.

I'm still at the age where I'm constantly seeking approval of people I have respect for.

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