I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've always felt very English.
I'm proud I'm English and I'm passionate about my country.
The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the older generation and so on. But then that's well blended into a happy balance and crystallised into common sense.
We wanted the language to feel fresh, fun, and rock solid.
Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too.
Weirdly, when I'm playing an English person, I feel like I've got nothing to hang on to, and it feels a bit strange and exposing.
People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
I've grown up surrounded by Americans and to a very large extent feel American. It sounds strange because I seem to be so quintessentially English in everyone's mind - and perhaps I am. Perhaps it's quintessentially English to have a fascination with America.
When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were very overwhelming.
I've never really had the urge to make an English album.