I'm just going to try and be a good dad and not spoil the kid: give him love and encouragement but also discipline. Me and my woman, we don't want him to feel too entitled.

When you first start writing a song, it's fun, then when you start recording it, it's fun, but by the time you've finished recording it, you're sick of it.

I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.

The British press can be so annoying. They jerk you off with one hand and smack you with the other.

I feel like I've given up a lot of my fantasies. I just want to do things differently, and to a lot of people that's annoying. I like weird stuff. I always hoped if we had a big success it would be on our own terms.

Forgive them even if they are not sorry

Songwriting is hard - it's so easy to fall into the same traps. It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.