The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.

When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.

I'm in an odd position because I write across so many genres for so many people and they all influence me, and if I'm going to write as honest an album as possible, it's going to be layered.

If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there, the formula kicks in. Each room should have something unique and different about it - much the same way that in a song, every eight bars or so, a new piece of information should be introduced.

The Beatles are the most credible band in the history of music.

I can go write an absolutely saccharine pop record with a really catchy lyric for another artist that could become a hit without meaning anything to me, but that's more the science laboratory, that's the other thing.

I have to shut down from other artists, because otherwise I end up giving them my stories.