Occupation: Singer-Songwriter Birth: December 14, 1970
When I'm on a roll nothing makes me happier or feel more satisfied, like plugging in, life makes sense..
I get a feeling, on a guitar, and I sort of mess around until something resonates with me, and then I just find that what happens is that a melody co….
I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to justify his painting..
Norfolk is not on the way to anywhere, you don't stop off on the way somewhere else - it's an end in itself. You have to want to go there; it's an ef….
To me songwriting is more like redemption. I can extract the poison or the pollen, the essence from a situation and the rest becomes a husk that blow….
I get told I'm a confessional songwriter, which gets on my tits because I think of negative connotations attached to the word "confessional". I don't….
Therapy is like telling your nightmares when you're a kid; they lose their power to hurt and control..
From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it..
My manager said the next best inspiration to heartbreak is travel, and it's true..
The way I write, words can means lots of different things..
I'm not comfortable holidaying in other people's poverty..
I just like the child's nightmares and therapy, once an experience has found the light of day I'm no longer under its spell, I'm free to tell it. I h….
One time I completely thought I'd turned into a werewolf and was sure I could see hairs sprouting from my face. At those times I'd suddenly go very q….
I love the water more than anything. I'm not very good at sunbathing - I get really bored. I love swimming and I love being like a fish and getting i….
Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find..
I don't believe in trouble. Because I think that trouble is sometimes good, sometimes bad. I've been known to be called trouble, which I think is qui….
I don't read music; I taught myself guitar..
At about the age of ten, my friends and I discovered the joys of sitting in graveyards drinking merrydown cider and kissing and stealing our elder si….
My dad got me a chemistry book one Christmas and I burnt the garden shed down. I remember there was the most beautiful smell forever after in the rem….
The upside to smoking is that you get to be social. I was looking for a light when I bumped into Ben Harper's manager. A couple of days later, Ben an….
The husk could be some useless bloke or losing myself and changing my DNA with bottomless grief..