I have a very strange relationship in general with women around my music. There's some that understand it and some that think there should be a law against it.

Who knows their own story? It certainly makes no sense when you’re in the middle of it

Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.

Sometimes the song isn't strong enough to contain the fiction, because memories are fictions.

It's very important that the music has a sense of adventure to it, and that it's done by the seat of your pants. There's a kind of nervy element about it.

Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.

To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things are going.