I think I'm a maker of songs, and songs are like films or a picture: You put them over there, and they have nothing to do with you.

I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.

If you want to be good at anything, you have to work hard at it. It doesn't just fall from the sky. I work every day at trying to improve my writing, and I really enjoy it. Nothing fascinates me more than putting words together, and seeing how a collection of words can produce quite a profound effect.

Fly with me, touch the face of the true God. And then cry with joy at the depth of my love.

Like I have to pretend like I'm a male rapper, that I got stacks and we're in the club, and what do I want to say. And then, when writing Rare I could just be PJ.

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

I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.