You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.

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

Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not.

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 don't think anyone really says anything new.

Music is like a huge release of tension.

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.