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I try to focus on the melodies and try to make everything else minimal. The melody and the lyrics are most important to me.

I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.

I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.

Often, when I work with a vocalist, I like to focus on the melodies first.

When I listen to my favorite songwriters, they have such simple melodies and chords. I occasionally manage to stop at the right time, but all too often I keep on going until I have way too many notes and words. But that's just what I do.

It's hard - some people get inspired by a feeling, but I'm mostly inspired by melodies.

My creative process is quite slow. I hear melodies in my head while I'm washing the dishes and I allow my subconscious to do the work.

I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.