Life is a process of working out what's not working for you and disentangling yourself from it and trying then not walk into the same thing again. Watching your patterns and correcting them if you can.

I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?

I really, really love music. I'm affected by it and uplifted by it, and made to laugh and cry, and almost fall in love with the person who has made me feel so brilliant and communicated so profoundly to me.

There's a lot of rage you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent.

I've always been an outsider; a displaced person.

Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.

Depression scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect.