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It's dangerous to buy into praise and criticism for what you do when you're trying to present your music to people. I don't ignore it completely, but I don't dwell on it too much.

I believe that my music is just about feelings, and the style is just a side effect.

I think there's quite a lot of cowardice in music. I don't mind if it goes wrong, I just want to go for it.

Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people do that.

Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me.

It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.

I could never change the overall feel of my music. That's why people like me - I don't follow trends, and I don't follow crowds.

The tricky thing is music is supposed to be very mysterious; the way it's made is mysterious. Then people like to get upset with the music business.

Certain kinds of people will always have an issue with my music. But that's fine; it's OK. I don't want to be the McDonald's of music. I don't want to not turn anyone off. If you were everybody's cup of tea, you'd probably be boring.

I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.