I don't think competition is good in music. What is good, is the desire and the ambition to create your best work.

Throughout my entire life, I constantly tried to fight normality. I hate it. I hate the idea of it. I hate routine. I hate anything that feels remotely regular or right.

The sound is very much always in my head, I have to get the sound out of my head onto the recording.

I don't think competition is good in music. What is good, is the desire and the ambition to create your best work.

I'm so used to it, I think I'd feel very naked on stage without a piano.

If people stop being interested it's because you haven't written a good enough album. Music will always be the most powerful thing. It doesn't matter what record labels or journalists say. It's the song.

You don't have to be as good a writer to write a song; it's a very different process to writing straight prose. To learn how to write prose takes a lot of years of practice.