When I'm writing I've been playing something for a couple of hours and I'm almost in a trance. At two or three in the morning you can actually see bits of inspiration floating about and grab them.

As an artist, you're never happy with anything you do. It's part of the process.

I think we're all a party to this information all the time. It's every day, in a way we probably weren't a few years ago. We're more informed, which is a good thing because war is always there somewhere on the planet.

Maybe if my songs feel personal, that's very nice. I like that. I take that as a great compliment.

Chips of plutonium are twinkling in every lung.

Quite often, lyrics get misunderstood - and I never mind that. I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to bethought provoking.

Sometimes people mishear my lyrics and think a song's about something it isn't.