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

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.

If you're a Brit you kinda get used to people being cold and aloof and just generally arrogant - particularly musicians. (Compared to Londoners New Yorkers are a walk in the park!)

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

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

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.

Music is politics - it always has been and it always will be.