I have this idealistic and maybe naive thought that almost any song can be anything. If you record one song today, it would maybe be exciting and cool. But I could record the same song next week and it would be something completely different.

I like to record with people. I don't particularly enjoy standing alone and recording my own voice or my own stuff. It's sometimes fun to do for demos and stuff, but I really enjoy the social act of recording records, because writing it is so lonely. And it has to be.

I usually enter the studio with a mix of songs that I've been listening to that are relevant to the sound I want to achieve.

History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain.

I started trying to write songs when I was 8 or 9 years old.

I work with really cool people, and so far I haven't been approached in any embarrassing manner when it comes to image.

People need to put my music in a perspective where they use other established artists from the past, and almost all the names I see related to my music are great musicians.