L.A. is a vortex. The weather there tricks you into thinking you're on vacation, even when you're working fourteen hours a day.

The way Lou Reed wrote and sang about drugs and sex, about the people around him - it was so matter-of-fact.

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.

It's that feeling when you hear your favourite song. That feeling, whether you're in a car, at a party or alone at home or in bed and you hear this song and it just hits you so strong - that’s what we aim for.

No matter who I'm talking to, I always talk like I'm doing an interview.

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

My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.