Noise is an easy thing to hide behind. If you make a lot of noise and shout behind that, nobody can tell what you're singing.

It's weird: The leader of the Conservative Party in England is two years younger than me, and I still don't really feel like a responsible adult.

I'd never really wanted to have a really 'private' life before. But when somebody starts delving into it and printing details through the tabloids for shagging people you shouldn't have shagged, then that probably made me shy away a bit more from giving too much away.

[Jeffrey Lewis is] The best lyricist working in the US today.

It’s interesting that most gadgets are called ‘iPhone’ and ‘iPod,’ with that ‘i’ prefix, which is ego. But most creativity is not ego-led – a lot of it comes from the unconscious. So if you’re always checking your email or updating your Instagram profile, you’re not just looking out the window, daydreaming. You’ve got to let the subconscious in – that’s my main message to the world.

I think that's what all art is for - for people to express what it is to be human. That's the purpose of it.

Pornography takes all the reality out of sex and Disney does that to family life.