I look back and think of all the times I've had to let things go in the past, and how traumatic it seemed while it was happening, but how my understanding of it changed as time passed - and oftentimes things that seem really difficult and traumatic in the short term seem a lot less difficult and traumatic in the long term. So I remind myself of that.

Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist.

Over time, I started becoming more and more aware of the vastness and complexity of the universe, which led me away from any sort of conventional Christianity.

Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book.

The demise of the monolithic record industry has been, for a lot of people, really liberating and emancipating.

If I'm walking down the street and someone stops me and says, "Oh! A song that you wrote meant a lot to me, and I listened to it after I went to my sister's funeral," that's when it hits me.

All I want to do with my life is try and make music that I really love, and so every day I try and work on music.