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.

Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph.

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

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.

My muse is my wife. It's not some vague thing that flutters around the astrosphere or wherever it is. Sometimes as a songwriter you need something to hang a song on, to give it some kind of presence and form. For me, Susie is that.

Everyone wants to feel that they matter.

You can't trust an artist that just makes good records.