I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.

It seems like the more I punish myself, the better it's been. What it is, I'm relentless and I never give up. I never take the easy way out.

I always feel like a bit of an outsider myself, but as a working class lad, the system was always against me. The British system itself and then of course all the illnesses that were challenging to me.

My reputation is a media creation.

Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music.

Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.

For me people are people, without meaning to sound corny, it's a plain natural fact, music is a universal language and I've always known that and observed that and treated music with great respect accordingly.