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.

I would always consider myself to be political with a small "p," although it makes me mad when people say politics should be kept out of music.

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

I'm already 30! It doesn't really feel like a landmark. When I started out, my aim was to keep making records. Just because I've reached the 10th doesn't mean I'm going to rest on my laurels now!

Bob Dylan had been a big sort of presence in my life but I'd never quite registered what he was trying to tell me. He was always this kind of figure, a sort of bear-like figure in the corner of the room. You know, every time I imagined what Bob Dylan looked like, he looked a bit like Steve Earl used to look - with the beard.

I think that youth culture is now very deliberately designed by both corporate entities and by governments to not involve people directly. Because as soon as you involve people you have a small loss of control; and as soon as that happens, anything could happen.

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