There are a lot of very strong connections with music and mathematics. They both can work in patterns and sequences and repetitions.

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.

That doesn't matter. If it speaks to them and they get something positive from it, it's great.

Im the shyest megalomaniac youre ever likely to meet.

I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.

The great thing about art on any level is that it can speak to all people if it's achieved properly.

I just try to put myself in the sense of being a character, sometimes male. I suppose I just like the idea of trying to be different people coming from all kinds of different angles. Most of it was just from my imagination.