Turn away from your animal kind, try to leave your body, just to live in your mind.

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

In the beginning, there was a kind of energy that - like an urgency to express myself, and the songs just couldn't be held in. But I think it changes, the nature of how that - what that energy is. And I need to court the muse in a much more serious way.

It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical.

What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.

One of my earliest memories was me singing 'Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' at the top of my voice when I was seven. I got totally carried away. My grandmother, Sarah, was in the next room. I didn't even realise she was there. I was terribly embarrassed.

I find it a lot healthier for me to be someplace where I can go outside in my bare feet.