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.

[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.

Disappearing act? That's a magic trick, isn't it? I like magic tricks!

The world is continually changing. I think in some ways it's changing in a very positive way.

I split it up into working on the two narrative pieces that can tell a story. The scariest thing was whether I'd be any good performing live again. It was such a long time since I'd done any live work. It's so different for me than recording. Every night my audiences were what I would dream of. You could just feel their support.

School was a very cruel environment and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt and I learnt to cope with it.

It's not easy putting creative projects together. In my case, it might take a long time and you try to do the best.