When I was born, my mother didn't know what to name me. Eventually she named me after Thom Yorke.

It turns out I have clinical schizophrenia. The unborn chicken voices were telling me to kill my family.

15 Step is about how if you have mental illness and try to dance you look very funny. Whenever you see me dancing on stage, I'm imitating the mentally ill.

You can't make an egg without frying an egg

I'd go onstage doing this thing, trying to fill this arena that I can't fill because I don't understand what this is. It's like you're given a job that's beyond you. And it's taken me years to realize what works in those big situations.

What happens a lot with songwriting is that a melody or rhythm or something stays with you like catching a cold. And during that time what happens is that I can then fit things on to it, it all fits and glues together. Sometimes it's crazy cos it can almost be anything. But if you catch the cold then the nonsense makes sense. It's like you're getting beamed it, like with a ouija board and something's pushing your hand. It's not a pleasant experience necessarily.

When you're a parent, then you still have to commit to this concept of, "Okay, I'm basically out of action now for three months."