People who paint, including myself, get to a point where a bit of angst comes in. If you're doing it for a living, it's worth it to suffer those slings and arrows.

Jet, I can almost remember their funny faces

Personal differences, musical differences, business differences, but most of all because I have a better time with my family.

I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic fame.

Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think it's necessarily happiness. But I think self-satisfaction is maybe the enemy. It's kind of better to think, "Tomorrow night I'm gonna sing it better." There is this forward effort. It feels to me right, it feels human.

George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.

My brother's researched our early family history. He found a letter from a fella who said he used to be in love with my mum.