I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion.

I was an incredibly misanthrope. I couldn't relate to people my age, and I'm not sure why, as I wasn't particularly smart or interesting

I thought ‘I wonder what will happen if I try and root myself somewhere?‘ Look back over the past eight years.

I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.

I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.

My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.

It took a lot of time and practice for me to realise that there's no point trying to be something you're not.