I play out my role, I've even been out walking -They tell me that it helps, but I know when I'm beaten.

People say you make your best work when in despair, but I think happiness is a good place to write from.

There's this British elegance that we, at times, have really missed in the States. We've always been more of a sportswear culture.

I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.

An artist or writer always has to move forward. All the time you're trying to improve yourself, or at least look at ways to improve things or make things better. I'm not really one to harp on previous records. I'm always looking forward to what I'm doing now, and what's ahead.

Young people can listen to music at any moment in the day or night. Which is great, but I think it kind of devalues it as well. They don't feel the need to own it. They certainly don't feel the need to pay for it. I'd have to save up for weeks to buy an album when I was a kid, and that made it even more great for me when I finally got that thing in my hand.

So much is filtered by pop music today, because the music industry is driven by single, single, single, single, the next single, not the nurturing of artists and that kind of thing.