It would be a horrible business, a horrible sort of culture if you didn't have the candy pop as well as the real hard-hitting stuff. And I love some pop music.

Sometimes you definitely need to just let go. You need to sort of forget everything.

I would say Tony Blair is very much a lapdog. I'm terribly scared that when he finally goes - and we can only hope it's soon - that he will be remembered for all these terrible things that he's done. Which is kind of a scary thing for a Labor Prime Minister.

One of the joys of writing music is making your own mark. Study other stuff, immerse yourself in music and then tell your own truth.

I think the US and the UK are gradually growing closer together in a lot of ways. They're inextricably linked.

I want to be accessible to a certain type of person who wants to walk around with their eyes open, or at least is open to the idea of change.

My generation in the UK, they're very apathetic, a lot of them.