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I've never understood musicians who don't enjoy doing promotional interviews. I just can't believe it. I always think, 'Your life must have been so brilliant before you were in a band.'

I don't like to talk about other bands in interviews.

I was in a band at school, and almost from the day we started, I started writing songs, just because that seemed what you did.

I just try to write songs that people are going to have a dialogue about.

I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.

People in bands don't have the kind of conversations people might think they have. The best things about being in a band are the things that are unsaid.

All these interviews I'm doing - this is the kind of stuff that I was dreaming about doing when I was younger. I was praying for people to want to write about me. I wanted people to hear my music. I wanted to perform. I wanted to be on billboards.

I couldn't imagine what it's like to be a journalist talking about music. You're left with empty descriptions; you probably have to make up a sort of weird cocktail of band influences and references to other music to get your point across.

Before I wasn't sure what I wanted to say, but now, I have had so many different experiences that they have given me what I want to get across in my music.

The reason I do interviews is because I'm protecting my songs.