A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

While writing is a mystical process, it's also work. If you show up to work five days in a row, nobody's going to pat you on the back - everyone does that. Well, do that with your writing. Just show up. Be there for it. When you get an idea, write it down somewhere and then be a steward of that idea.

I couldn't name more than a couple of good drum'n'bass acts, and I have no idea what's big in the dance world right now.

I suspect by the time the Beatles were writing the White Album, they didn't go, "'I Wanna Hold Your Hand!' I wanna play that!" It's like if somebody asked you to put on the clothes you wore in high school. Well, no. No!

Kayfabe is kind of a code. To break kayfabe is to let people know that the punch was not real and that the match was scripted.

I do have a romantic interest in outlasting everybody else. There's a sort of sad machismo to singer-songwriters, I think.

You're not really going to know what a place is like 'til you've lived there a few years - you sort of just have to go with your gut.