My husband doesn't know what my songs are about - even when they're about him. He's very British in that way. He doesn't ask, and he doesn't want to be told.
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We don't really talk about music that much, to be honest with you. It's not some I usually - I can't really talk about other people's tracks never mind my own.
In Britain, you know there are people waiting to tear your stuff apart, so it's important for me to know that my music has subtleties and depth to it.
For some reason, I'm really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.
Most of my songs aren't about me. They're about stuff I've seen.
I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different.
In the songs I can still be really really direct but in interviews when I'm explaining my songs I shouldn't be so direct about who they're about.
Lyrically, there's a lot of songs that are influenced by my wife. They're about my wife and I.
It bugs me that people think my songs are personal because it means I have to explain myself all the time.
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.
I sometimes don't know what songs are about for several years after I've written them.
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