I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.

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

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

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.

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

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'm reluctantly interested in love and helplessly interested in logic and yet they're so conflicting. And they're both necessary for a happy balance, a happy existence... I think.