I'm not a terrible smoker, actually. My major addiction, which is horrible, is straight boys.

I find so many songwriters today are missing an element ... either the production is amazing but the songs aren't, or it's the other way around.

I have this horrible, horrible habit of going on YouTube and checking out comments about what I do.

I think I've done a pretty fantastic job, but of course I want to sell millions of records.

After years of hotels, I'm horribly inept at cleaning up after myself.

I'm a big fan of the Pre-Raphaelites. Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, and I realised recently that my music is Pre-Raphaelite in a certain way, in that it reinvents an older era and romanticises it, puts it in this gilded frame.

I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I would do, the less I would feel.