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.

The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.

At school I was an anti-magnet for women.

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.

Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you're pushed to the limit constantly.

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.

I don't like those songs where you have to listen to a story to get into them. I don't want to have to pay attention to music in that way, I just want it to hit me in the heart and do what music's supposed to do.