We don't have T-shirts with my face, but there I can see the beginnings, especially young girls seeing me as sort of a icon in that way. And in that regard I'm more than happy to step in.

I really love traveling, I love playing.

The complete self-absorption, and childish indulgence and disregard, and having to feel as though everything you're doing is so people can live vicariously through you, so you have to pursue more and more unpleasant pastimes in order to satisfy the armchair people. That's a kind of scary existence.

The writing process is very much like being in a dark tunnel, and you don't really know what you will end up with until you have created it.

Lots of people take the option of not activating their own life, of really letting it happen.

Being alive and understanding that and making the decision to actually live take a lot of courage.

Oftentimes the most produced and synth-tastic songs are the ones that end up sounding the best acoustic.