It's a big enough umbrella, but it's always me that ends up getting wet.

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.

It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do.

I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.