“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.

I began as a dramatist in the theater, so I’m always thinking about how a story moves, what it looks like, how to engage the senses.

We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege

Women move through the world never knowing their power.

I have definitely been in experiences where my girlfriends have outgrown me.

If I am not moving I get bored very easily.

It’s psychologically a weird experience to be so aware of the fact that the real time of your life is moving much faster than the fictional time you’re trying to depict.

When God begins moving, the devil fires up all his artillery.

It’s a fact of earthly life that when God opens the windows of heaven to bless us, the devil opens the doors of hell to blast us.