I've always loved improvising. That's how I write songs. Creativity has an improvised element to it.

I've always loved improvising. That's how I write songs. Creativity has an improvised element to it.

I find it quite difficult to analyze my own motives for things. I tend to go with a gut feeling in the moment.

If a shop has a lot of sections I'll end up putting my record above the James Blunt CDs since he ripped off my bloody artwork and he's selling millions of records! I try to get people to buy mine accidentally.

I feel myself developing more and more of this soul voice, and...it's a mystery to me. Fundamentally, I just think because I feel it, it's alright.

It's really hard to make something that doesn't sound like everything else.

There's a difference between writing, the written word, and music. When you have the blank page it doesn't make a sound, which is like what happens to me every night when I'm playing. There is that crazy moment: the first mark you make on the page. But sound can inspire sound, in a way that words can't inspire words - at least for me. The nature of sound itself is still a huge mystery to me. I'm very happy about that.