Improvisation is risky. I like that. Another practical reason for that is that you have to go out and play every day on a tour. I couldn't do it if I thought I was going to do the same songs every day in the same order, like a full-on robot.

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

I really wanted to maintain that bedroom philosophy to creating stuff. I don't believe the hype; I think a great record is because I put a lot of love into it. If people are feeling it, that's fantastic.

I do really enjoy having a crowd of people out to see me. They really motivate me. I feel really lucky they've come down so I give it what I have got every time.

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

I'm not the kind of guy who likes to rush things through. I like to take my time and finish when I'm finished.

I stopped going out and taking pills and I started hanging out and learning about flat eleven chords.