I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, and that's what was always special for me about music: it made me feel something.
When I started music, I think it was responsible for keeping me sane, because training as a dancer really kept me in good spirits amid all the crazy stuff that happened when I first became popular.
I think that there's always room for humour in music. It's something that always takes itself so seriously, which I think is a bit of a shame.
The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.
The music industry is in such poor shape; it's in a really bad way, and a lot of people in the industry are very depressed.
Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.
I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.
I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my own music, some arrangement or something. I spend so much time listening that the way I relax is by watching things, a comedy; that's my way to wind down.
My music can be a little obscure. It does worry me that the music might be too complicated for people to take in - that they have to work too hard at it.
Obviously I try to make the best music that I can, but after about two years of making an album, you start to worry: 'Is it going to come out all right? Is it all going to sound churned out?'