Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.

I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.

I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.

I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.

I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.

When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.

Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.