It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.

Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have - to be taken away from one's family and locked away for 10 years. It does create an incredible intensity of emotion.

There's a lot of music nowadays with people singing about how amazing their clothes are and how incredible their shoes are and how much jewelry they might be wearing or how much jewelry they want, how much money they have and the club that they're in and the alcohol that they're drinking. I think that's showing off. I don't think it's necessarily all that honest or all that interesting.

The song is about love, life, fear and hope... and more than anything, you... and me...

If the Army helped towards my tuition fees I would then give them four years of my life.

I write songs about my own experiences. You can't lie to yourself. You can't pose to yourself.

It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.