These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next.

I became the magnet for a lot of scary aggression. Cos it's scary Up North!

I'm the most indecisive person in the world. I'll do three versions of a song, then think, "Is the demo better?"

I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.

Don't sing a song you can't carry off, like some 16-year-old kid singing 'My Way'. That song's not for you. You haven't lived that.

I made a creativity out of that messiness.

I'd always wanted to write a song about a leather jacket and how wearing it makes you feel. I love leather jackets, and I've got a big collection of them.