I will say it is great to have a woman in charge of the country.

I spend a lot of my time looking at blue, The colour of my room and my mood.

[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.

I think what is great is that if anything that I do is interesting to somebody else, then I really don't think it matters at all what I had originally intended.

I'm quite a private person and I like my work to do the talking.

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.

Whatever is going on in your life when you're writing has to somehow seep into your work.