After I've done the salesman bit, I like to be quiet and retreat, because that's whereI write from. I'm a sort of quiet little person.

They were worried we wouldn't get any radio play at all[ for "A Deal with God" ]. That's why it was changed [to "Running Up That Hill"].

[Theresa May] is a very intelligent woman but I don't see much to fear.

With some of the songs, we brought the pitch down to alto.I'm older, so naturally my voice is lower now.

I think snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere.

My desire was never to be famous. It was to try and create something interesting musically if I could.

The thing with 50 Words of Snow is that it was literally back-to-back from Director's Cut [also released in 2011]. It was more or less that I got to make two albums in one hit. I was already in this space in my mind to be writing and making an album.