["A Deal with God"] was the first single off Hounds of Love. I'd put a lot of work into putting that album together and I wanted it to have every chance.

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

We have a female prime minister [Theresa May] here in the UK. I actually really like her and think she's wonderful. I think it's the best thing that's happened to us in a long time.

I'm not vanishing into thin air.

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

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.

You hope that the ideas will come together. You just don't know. That's part of what I suppose is part of being brave and putting creative work out there.