I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination.

The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for that kind of rock star.

The editing of a song is largely what makes the song for me and I think that actually if I had started going like 'I want you to burn' it would have pinned that song down to a particular thing and made that song a smaller idea than what it is. By leaving that off it's much more open, broader.

Look, when I look back, from 20 onwards, I was actually having a pretty good time, I have to say.

I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.

The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.

I'm hugely self-critical in the morning.