“I think, when all bands start, when you’re on your first album you have the benefit of hoovering up people who genuinely come across the music and really like it, but also those sort of ‘floating voters’ who just like pop music when they’re young.”

People think it’s a betrayal of authenticity if you do something different.

And its sonic connections, it’s a sense of harmony that I think we all have even if we don’t know how to express it – it’s something musical, it’s synapse connections in our brain.

My modus operandi has always been understatement and that just doesn’t really work in pop.

I feel closer to the artist I was when I was 19 now then I have done in other stages of my career.

I think you have to start taking a few risks and sometimes they don’t pay off.

If this is what it’s going to take to satisfy everybody, then let’s do it and move on.

I don’t recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head.

Doing the same things you did when the economy was good is not good enough. You will have to put more coals on the fire in a poor economy to get the same heat you received in a good economy.

Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next.

You may not believe in life, but I don’t believe in death. Move on!

God didn’t make you a leader to respond to stuff all day. He made you a leader to move things forward.

I tend to do something for two years then move on to something new. Yoga, then biking, then weight lifting, then back to biking. The moment it feels like a rut, I switch and search for a new love. It’s like having a midlife crisis, but without the new wife or cheesy BMW.

I love costumes in dance, I think it’s very important. The clothes for dancing not only make you feel like somebody else, but it makes you move in a different way.