I don't know if I'm attention deficit, but I certainly am easily distracted by other things.

My love of R&B and hip-hop has influenced my life not even as a musician, but generally in terms of growing up and looking to America as an inspiration.

With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly.

I grew up in a place called Malahide, which is by the water and is beautifully quiet, leafy, and part serene.

I really wanted to get that dynamic on the record onto people and let them know it wasn't just a simple strumming along the guitar type of thing without ramming it down their throats so I kind of went the opposite way and sang some of the songs more quietly which allowed for the louder parts to sound as though there were more. It was the only way singing those songs made sense to me.

I moved to London with this really warped sense of expectation.

What we understand to be profoundness, or importance, it changes. It should change. It should be this moment where you cannot believe that equalled grandness or importance.