In terms of melody, I am really into great 90's melodies. I feel like there was a great focus on melody in the 90's, like 90's pop-hooks and 90's R&B hooks; I just love them.

I have three brothers. Poor Mum; four boys.

When I come up with something that I feel like people will connect with that makes me happy because I know that it would be something that would just go beyond me.

I feel like so many people get into that place where creating for someone else is selling out and it is so not about that. It is a stupid, kind of pretentious way of thinking.

I feel like writing music is a great chance to create something that extends beyond yourself.

If we all knew how to make that jump from good to great then I think every song would be great.

Something like film, I guess there are so many elements to it, like the dialogue and what makes sense culturally.

There is a balance in between where you can still make art, but it does not have to be insular.

You don't make a film and then be like I am only going to play it in my house and no-one is going to see it - that is ridiculous.

I feel like it is only music where people are like, "You can't do this for other people, you have to do it for yourself." Which I hate.

I think my first song ever was when my cat died. It was this awful, dreadful black cat who was angry and hated everything. Yet I was so upset when it died.

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

If you have few months to live, what will you do?

Mistakes are often the best teachers.

The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly respectable people except annoy them.

That's Washington. That's the place where you find people getting ready to jump out of the foxholes before the first shot is fired.

You can't revise a blank page.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault.

Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.

I'm not really a Facebook fan because I don't know how to use it! It's so complicated!