You have to watch all sides of your advancement, you have to make sure people's bodies and minds are healthy and their morale is cool before you can really go out and play great music.

I have women who offer to sleep with me all the time. But not men. They're all talk and nay action - as we'd say in Scotland.

We're living in a time when people are struggling to appear perfect.

The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression.

When somebody asks me a question, I try to be as straightforward about it as possible. I try not to overthink what I'm going to say in an interview.

I had taken some of my solo music into the record label. They didn't really care for the direction I was moving in and I found it really disheartening. They wanted a pop hit, which I understand in terms of making money. I get that. But what they were going to ask of me was something I wasn't prepared to deliver and I felt kind of trapped. I just stopped writing. I just stopped. It was stifling.

I think young artists are always inspiring because they are coming at worlds from a different point of view.