I guess if you're stupid enough to join the army without thinking about getting shot at, then you really are a fool.

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 showbiz world has to be manipulated to make it more interesting because most people's lives are boring.

My life is brillant, My love is pure.

My dad was in the Army. The Army's not great pay, but, you know, we moved from Army patch to Army patch wherever that was. The Army also contributed to sending me off to boarding school.

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

It's taken a long time but eventually when I had the songs in place and demos right and I found myself a manager, that's when everything started happening quickly but I think that's always the way it is.