There's always this talk of the industry of music and about selling records and whatever, but that ignores probably the majority of music that isn't ….

When it's a pop song, I don't really want to do pop songs, but they exist and sort of come out by accident..

Making a record's a real fight for me. I'm constantly fighting with this thing inside of me that says I should be sitting in a room with Matthew Ship….

I just think there's an awful part of rock-'n-roll music where people kind of pretend they're young all their lives, you know? And they kind of live ….

Everybody's looking for some kind of authenticity in music. Or some kind of truism, you know, "This is true!" And the thing about gospel music is, th….

Sometimes it's easier to make decisions when you know that you've tried things that are so wrong, you know, "OK, I don't go that way with it. I don't….

I used to listen to so much doo-wop, and I've talked a lot about gospel music, but I realised a lot of that language came from doo-wop music. You kno….

I don't know if embarrassed is the right word, about pop, but I prefer the abstract and the distorted in music. And I keep writing these proper melod….

In an odd way I thought I was lowering the bar for myself, in saying, well, I'll make a pop album. But in a way it's kind of harder to make pop music….

I think it's essential to make new music now, and to try and make epic records now, and not rely on what happened in the past..

My songs get to a stage where they resist any further change, you know? And that's kind of where they are, short of re-recording or starting again. T….

I kept saying I got sick of listening to people's productions, like people who had no ideas, no songs, nothing to say but could still con people's ea….

I'm obsessed with the science of music. I'm obsessed with the way you can string notes together and they can do something, and you play the same note….

I want my records to be the most magnificent and glorious-sounding records, but also want them to be the most intense and fragile. And I want that al….

I've said the line about Ray Charles a million times, but nobody listens to him singing "I Can't Stop Loving You" and wonders who Ray can't stop lovi….

It's a weird situation, doing interviews. Nowhere else in the world can you talk about yourself and have people listen like they're interested over a….

I don't make records for this medium with which we're going to sell it. The selling of it can never be more important than what you're actually makin….

You know, I'm unable to make those records where you just go in a studio and that's it. I think you can capture so much more on a record than just a ….