I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.

To think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because Im just learning like everybody else.

I don't think that much anymore in terms of 'write a record, record a record, tour a record,' because in my own mind, things have changed, in that I'm just an ongoing artist. I'm not quite sure what the next project needs to be until it presents himself, and then I know. I just follow dutifully while I'm being led.

If you come at the record feeling really happy and optimistic, it can be incredibly beautiful and uplifting, and if you come at it in a bleak moment, it can feel like a very dark place to share. It's all down to the listener.

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.

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 feel that my dreamscapes are part of my everyday life, and sometimes I can't tell the difference.