Sex is more than an act of pleasure, it’s the ability to be able to feel so close to a person, so connected, so comfortable that it’s almost breathtaking to the point you feel you can’t take it. And at this moment you’re a part of them.

We don't have to stand on a soap-box and preach because hopefully we're channelling it through the new record.

If there are political programs on TV, yet it takes an artist to actually energize political debate, that tells you something really quite frightening about the level of the political debate happening on mainstream channels - right-wing-biased mothers.

So how come it looks so beautiful? How come the moon falls from the sky?

I could blow bubbles. Bubbles would solve any dilemma we face. If bubbles were president there would be no war.

If the media spotlight affects my work or represses what I want to say in the future, then it is bad.

Well, it only dawned on me about six months ago that not everybody's against me all the time. It was something of a revelation.