I love comedy. I like to think that there's a sense of humor in some of my music - obviously not all of it.

I've learned you can't take any steps to protect any art. It is so vulnerable.

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.

When I've heard a piece of music or seen a painting that moves me, it gives me something.

You'll never know that you had all of me. You'll never know the poetry you've stirred in me.

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.

Normally I don't compromise at all but it felt important to give that song the chance to be heard.