I love going somewhere like Japan where you can't understand a word of the advertising - you just see it for its aesthetic beauty, without feeling that you're being sold something.

In America, the colors sing, they don't just glower at you. The West Coast especially is fantastic. It seems like you can do whatever you want here.

I come from a generation in England that considered making money or trying to promote yourself to be morally suspect.

The music is a continuing thing.

I really love it when you get that strange combination of feelings that play against each other.

I'm trying to be slightly happier with myself. No one really wants to be miserable all the time.

Growing up and living in England, I'm surrounded by grey skies and sarcasm, so when I came to America, my first impressions were bright, hopeful, cheerful.