I was very much a mess, as a person. I'd come from a very turbulent teenage life, with parents who had broken up in a very bad way, and a lot of illness at school.

For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar.

As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV.

A lot of youth today have become very narrow and conservative in a way, whereas we in the older generation are kind of living it.

I love this idea of shape-shifting and changing when you put on clothes, and turn into somebody else.

My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.

It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.