I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.

The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.

I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar

There are a lot of composers who were fantastic, but I challenge them to write a record that you could play five times a day for two months on the radio, songs that people will want to dance to on a Saturday night.

I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.

What I like about popular culture is its accessibility, and I've covered popular songs because they are amazing things.

Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.