I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.

I have a particular dislike for children's films. I'm way past the novelty aspect.

Guns are part of the American psyche, aren't they? This is collateral damage for having a Wild West mentality. It's intrinsic to the American psyche. It's never going to change.

I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story.

I'm hugely self-critical in the morning.

The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint, it's an honorable thing to spend all day and all night in front of your canvas - that is the romantic vision of the painter.

Songs need to have the ability to change and to grow for sure. They take on lives of their own. Some songs just don't have that capacity. They're locked within a period of time. And as soon as you take them out of that period of time, they die very quickly.