I've got my laptop, but it troubles me in many ways. I don't have Twitter or Facebook or anything like that. It ruins a romantic idea, which might just be an illusion, a sense of depth or continuity. I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the end of a unique character, of a specific kind of geographical culture. The world is getting so small, and mass production is getting so big. Everything is in danger of becoming the same.

I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.

I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.

It’s hard to accept yourself as someone you don’t desire / As someone you don’t want to be.

I would never sit and write a song in front of anyone, because you're so vulnerable. I don't know at what point in the process that it becomes acceptable to pass them on. When a song wants to be written, it will be written. When it does come, I will very rarely go back and edit lyrics. I'm quite a rational human being, and the only part of my life that I can't rationalise, or can't make sense of, is how a song gets written or why.

Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.

The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.