I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.

Any kind of anthemic song, for the most part, they're on the positive side of things. It's not hard to identify when a melody is just one degree too complicated or one degree too simple and where that line of pop memorability lies.

A year's a long time, but it also flickers past in no time at all.

I had a guitar leaning against the wall and I'd squint at it. It was almost like a dog that had been kicked - I didn't think I had anything to offer it.

I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.

Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.

Instead of just looking back, whiplash-style, I can assume there's something else coming. Time just folds over itself, like origami.