I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.
I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.
I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it.
I don't think it's a bad thing to share how you feel, especially if people can relate to it.
I don't like shopping, and I like my clothes to be comfortable.
I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.
Anyone can look pretty with hair and make-up.
Your limitations create your sound.
There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do that to make a good song.
I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.
I feel like I've been lucky, because I don't feel like I've ever tried to be somebody I'm not. People might disagree.
Without a piano I don't know how to stand, don't know what to do with my hands.
There are absolutely no problems between me, my dad and my sister. Obviously I grew up with just my mum, but my relationship with my dad is just fine.
I love eggs so much. I feel like my day hasn't started until I've had eggs. I'm probably gonna die from high cholesterol!
My mom and I have always been very close. She is my best friend. She had to make a lot of sacrifices early on in my life to make sure I got to do what I wanted to do.
I got stood up by the letter Y, he was hanging around with his X.
A song will keep going round in my brain and keep me awake.
When something's ending, you go through so many phases, and it can be frustrating. But once you're out on the other side, it's like you can really see all the crazy phases you went through.
Breaking up is just hard, even if you're the one breaking up. It's not fun. It can be dramatic and complicated. And then you get a little distance and you think, why did it have to be so complicated and dramatic?
When you are on tour in the UK it takes a few hours to get anywhere. A lot of the time you can have a beer, close your eyes for two minutes, and then you are there. In the U.S. it is much more like a road trip as all the cities are so spread apart.
We changed every lead in our whole system, and to this day we still don't really know why it did it. We think wires were touching and faulting. That was it really, but it didn't make it any easier.
To remain relevant though, I think making great records is the key.
The story behind every song is individual to itself.
The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was really cold and boring and for some reason I just had a go of the guitar and the song came pretty quick.
The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young to U2.
The Millennium Stadium thing was for the Tsunami concert. It was a thing that I think every band in the country would have liked to be a part of at the time that it happened.
Revising a screenplay is much more frustrating than revising a song because you have to read through the entire work again while you are changing stuff. It is a lot easier to edit a song.
Like all bands, the first two albums are always the ones most written about, and the most covered. When a band gets to their third of fourth album, the story of the band has already been told.
Japan is quite weird because they wait for you to say something before they respond. You can literally hear a pin drop, they don't make a sound until you say something to the crowd.
It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.
