I have a friend who says the best boyfriends are ones with intimidating, good-looking older brothers. The boyfriends try harder because they're so in….

You can have all sorts of relationships, but there's something with musicians working together where you can have relationship that can just continue….

I've also been writing with my guitarist, Ted Barnes, and he's amazing. Writing with him has taught me a lot about my own writing process, in the sen….

Even when I haven't had money, I found money to travel. It's a luxury that's a kind of necessity, I think..

I didn't jump a lot of trees because I didn't like heights. I liked getting a mirror and walking around with it facing the sky. I'd imagine I was wal….

When I was really young I used to collect frog spawn. I made a pond out of an old sink and I loved to spend hours watching the frogs grow..

We're all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each generation finds new materials. Its just evolution, ….

Kissing was something I did a lot of. Kissing in a wheat field as the sun begins to set on a summer's evening, with the haze of that light..

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….

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….

The husk could be some useless bloke or losing myself and changing my DNA with bottomless grief..

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….

I don't read music; I taught myself guitar..

Therapy is like telling your nightmares when you're a kid; they lose their power to hurt and control..

I'm not comfortable holidaying in other people's poverty..

From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it..

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….

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….

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….

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….

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….