Inspiration is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything. I go into my office every day that I'm in Brighton and work. Whether I feel like it or not is irrelevant.

Sometimes the song isn't strong enough to contain the fiction, because memories are fictions.

I'm always sort of looking for projects that I can sort of put out into the world, into the public sphere, and to somehow cause an effect. I want to be able to create projects that sort of are going to make people think and think in this sort of magical, sort of fantastical way.

It's very important that the music has a sense of adventure to it, and that it's done by the seat of your pants. There's a kind of nervy element about it.

I am the captain of my pain.

A is for Answering all your prayers, N is for kNowing that your loverman's going to be the answer.

The singing tells everybody what to do musically.