There's always a part of my brain saying: 'Stop getting comfortable. Don't relax.' Because I find it difficult to write when I'm happy. I have to go out there and get battered up and bruised to write anything. I have to feel something.

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

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.

I think particularly in music, popularity os a very fickle thing. You're only as good as your last 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.

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

I really want to come back! I definitely want to come back. Some of my fondest memories are in New Zealand.