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

Nobody works harder than Lady Gaga. Nobody. She is unbelievable. I don't know how she sleeps, or when or if.

I'm not interested in corporate magic or fame.

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

I grew up listening to English music.

Any time you have a song that is directly connected to a very specific musical trend of the moment, you have immediately cut it off at the knees, doesn't matter if it goes to number one in the world, if you're too attached to a production style.

I listen to the far left which informs the far right. Somewhere in the middle is where we end up.