When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a bad show you talk to yourself about it.

After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration.

Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.

I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.

As a child I always had a sense of social conditions and political situations. I think it had to do with the fact that my mother was always discussing things with my sister and me - also because I read a lot.

Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse.

Love's a recurring theme through my work.