I started playing bass in my friend's band for some reason. It was just something I did because, well, he asked me if I wanted to play bass and he played me this song - Nirvana's version of "Molly's Lips", the Vaselines song - and he said, "You can do this! This is not hard!" and it's like a two-note song. I learned that and then I thought I was a genius.

I make a living from storytelling - if you're a public person and you sing songs about getting married to get a visa, and you are actually doing that, you're gonna end up in trouble.

The fate of a song is often established in the first 15 minutes of writing.

I think to find an escape route out of a music industry that is becoming more and more focused on making money.

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

I really think I need to find a home. I don't know if that includes a girlfriend or not, but first I need to find a home, definitely.

Sometimes it's not like I write very specific, it's more like I add an atmosphere almost to something that might have been quite awkward in my mind from the beginning. Something has happened and I want to force myself to think of it in a more positive way. And then I force myself to write something that convinces me that this is actually something pretty good or something that I learned something valuable from.