I'm aware of my songs. I'm aware of them because they're about true emotions, true feelings, things that matter.

As a young concert-going person, I was never enamoured with celebrities who would walk out to feature in certain songs and then walk off.

Heaven is on this earth. There are no angels on the clouds with twanging harps... That's just another man's fantasy.

You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.

I don't believe in pets. I like animals to be wild and free.

I love being alive so much. When you come out of comas in your childhood, every moment awake is a joyous occasion.

Words cannot express quite a lot of feelings, whereas a noise or tone or drone or sound, an accordion falling down a staircase, can somehow capture an emotion much better.