I hate when songwriters refer to their songs as babies.

I wanted the album to be aerodynamic, like an airplane taking off from a runway - all of a sudden you're in the air.

Family and friends always need to be bigger than your music career, and in that sense, your music will be bigger because you respect your family and your friends more.

I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so scared of dying that I wouldn't go out of our house for a whole year.

I think the cynicism that you have when you've just gone through a break-up is a luxury that you allow yourself for a while.

The beauty of the collage technique is that you're using sounds that have never met and were never supposed to meet. You introduce them to each other, at first they're a bit shy, clumsy, staring at their shoes. But you can sense there's something there. So you cut and paste a little bit and by the end of the song you can spot them in the corner, holding hands.

I realized I needed to work with other people instead of doing everything myself.