You go back and look at some of the ancient writings that exist throughout the world about wars and it's the same; the human beings' articulation of events is the same. That really fascinated me.

Most of the stuff that I do talk about, about being counted out and being an underdog, 'cause that's what I feel like I am.

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.

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent.

I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.

It varies, I don't think there is any one set way of writing songs or coming up with ideas, it comes in so many ways you know.

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