Sexuality, and sexual orientation - regardless of orientation - is just natural. An act of sex is one of the most human things.

The song is about asserting yourself and reclaiming your humanity through an act of love.

I am a politically motivated person, and that will come through in the music. I'm not sure if every song will be Take Me to Church, but I can only hope that people enjoy the body of work that I have ahead of me.

There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin

I found the experience of falling in love or being in love was a death, a death of everything. You kind of watch yourself die in a wonderful way, and you experience for the briefest moment – if you see yourself for a moment through their eyes – everything you believed about yourself gone. In a death-and-rebirth sense.

I think humans are driven by othering people, by defining themselves by who they are not and who is different from them. Human beings are in love with othering.

Art and music are the vehicle for the zeitgeist.