I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me.

All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences.

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 am quite competitive. In stupid things like card games.

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

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.

One woman I interviewed, Amanda Ghost, said, "Let's not bullshit, there are no women at the top of the music business, and that is a serious problem." And I said, "Yes!" And I didn't shy away from saying that. But I still don't want to be in the firing line. I'm not clever or witty or brave enough to get into the political nitty-gritty with it.