The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale.

I am regarded as a usurper, as an imposter and dilettante, because I do technically come from the wrong side of the tracks in musical terms.

The song is about knowing the end result of every situation you're in, and being able to play it out in your mind and see it before it happens. It's about addiction, really, about knowing how it's all going to end up. In that sense, you're watching a movie of yourself all the time - and then you want out of that movie.

I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is alive and well. We're not that far ahead of the Romantic Age in society.

My dad and I have always been somewhat competitive.

I like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can.

I like to think of myself as a combination of Sid Vicious and Virgil Thompson