Comedy is a very big part of the English culture, the sense of humor; it's a very dominant trait.

[For Before the Dawn] it was in the hands of a fantastic drummer and percussionist and who drove it into another moment in time. It's such a poignant song and it was transformed into entirely different beast.

You have to try and embrace it all and everyone who represents that change because it is happening.

When I've heard a piece of music or seen a painting that moves me, it gives me something.

Chips of plutonium are twinkling in every lung.

My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff. He was really a hugely encouraging force to me when I was little.

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 inspiration floating about and grab them.