Love for money is my sin, any man calls, I'll let him in.

The artists that I love- whether painters or filmmakers- it's because something resonates in me because I've felt it.

I just love having no clothes on outside, and the only time to do that is when the sun's shining. It's a wonderful sensation to not have any clothes on.

I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.

You can sing a very aggressive word in such a way that it's very funny. You can change words, completely turn them around on their head so that they mean exactly the opposite of what they are written down. There are endless possibilities which I think Diamanda Galás is doing already. She turns everything upside down by the way she sings it. She makes you feel nauseous or horrified or ridiculous just by her voice. I think that's an incredible power.

I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a book.

I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.