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My best songs come from a place outside myself.

I think of my songs as there to be something to move people emotionally.

I don't feel that I belong anywhere. Or rather, if there's a place I belong, I don't feel I'm there.

Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation... about where you fit in society.

I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.

Most of my songs aren't about me. They're about stuff I've seen.

When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.

All my songs are where I am.

A great song is one that is around even when I'm not.

Certain songs like 'Enjoy the Silence' - to me, it always fits anywhere. There's something about that song that's really timeless, and I never get bored or feel like I have to muster something up.