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When I make music, it's a very visual thing. Conjures up a lot of images.

Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.

I think people hire me for the slightly weird angle that I bring. Part of the trick is keeping it sort of simple; you have to give the impression of not that much music playing when there's really a lot.

I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.

When people are performing in a musical, everybody is intuitively drawn to the right pitch. You don't want to be too broad that people can't relate to it, so it has to have some grounding in the real world.

For me the visual is just as important as the music.

I write music visually.

Everything I do is very visual and very aural, so I don't read music, and I draw as much as I write out lyrics.

You feel the music needs something but you don't know what. So you start searching, fitting, measuring, trying. Every time you try another angle. And sometimes that's frustrating, especially if you don't come up with something for three days.

I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician.