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People are really set in their ways in how they produce records, and I was at least open enough to where I knew I wanted to do something totally different.

If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.

All my records have been written to be records, rather than writing a group of songs and seeing if they fit together.

It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.

I just don't think you can make records easily and have them be great. It's a process. You've got to get really lucky all the time, or you've got to work like mad.

Some amazing records have this power to leave you with inspiration; you're left with the urge to write something. And some records are totally overwhelming, because they are so good, they burn the bridges behind them.

When I first got my record deal, I was like, 'I just want to sing,' and I never put much thought into what really goes into a record. But as I got older, I developed a passion for writing.

The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happened in my life from the time I was fifteen to the time I was twenty.

I wanted to make a record that people could put on year after year after year, and it would never feel dated.