I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.

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.

We as visual artists need to continue to be renegades and say, "Yes I am here to do a project, but what is the social service?"

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.

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

I've had to try and find a way over the years of writing narratively that doesn't really require you to sit down and work out what the story's about. You're brought into a sort of sequence of images that have that emotional resonance, but it's kind of irrelevant what the actual story is. It's taken me maybe 13 albums or something to work that out.

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