I love being not cool.

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 like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can.

I think my imagination and my passions are still firing away, but it's really the body that starts to make up the rules. It's not a major problem; it's just when you get a little older you realize how much your body thanks you when you are good to it.

To me, songs come of their own volition - and with an open-ended philosophy.

I think my mother, more than anyone, knew the importance of inspiration. If it was occurring, you had to use it.

Mowing your lawn is against nature.