When I start to write a song, I initially fall into patterns and creative habits that are familiar, and because they're familiar, they sound convincing. It's important for me to not pursue those ideas, because I've already done them, but to find ideas that are different and feel strange to write and disconcerting to write.

Your limitations make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.

I am the captain of my pain.

I love America. I really do. It's by far the place I like visiting out of anywhere in the world. I get a palpable sense of excitement when the plane's landing. It's a cliché, but there's still an incredible energy about New York in particular.

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .

There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.

I think I have always had a pretty strong creative impulse. And that has probably saved me from abandoning myself completely.