I don't believe in an interventionist God

I still feel very much an imposter in the whole music scene, which I'm quite happy about to be honest.

I love America. I really do. It's by far the place I like visiting out of anywhere in the world. I get a palpable sense of excitement when the plane's landing. It's a cliché, but there's still an incredible energy about New York in particular.

And she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me

You're collaborating with people you don't even know, when you're making a film. You're collaborating with people you've never seen. So, the collaborative process is very, very different than when you're collaborating on a record with the musicians you've worked with all your life.

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

I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.