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All music is escapism for me, but I like the way that, on a good night, that sense of escapism can be shared.

Music is escapism, it's entertainment.

Music can be a source of escapism.

At times I make music, but in private.

People speculate on your personal life all the time anyway. So I just think it's important to keep my private life private and my public persona more into music, you know?

For me, that's always been one of the great charms of the first person: we gain access to a very personal, private kind of music.

We're all private people, but as a musician, I think that once you get to the point where there's more of your life behind you than in front of you, you owe it to your public to explain yourself.

Music is my way of getting away from everything. It means a lot to me.

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.