People Who Make Good Music Aren't Necessarily

As A Shy Kid Growing Up In Sheffield, I Fantasized About How It Would Be Great To Be Famous So I Wouldn't Actually Have To Talk To People And Feel Awkward. And Of Course, As We All Know From Fairy Stories, When You Achieve That Ambition, You Find Out You Don't Want It.

I Do Write Songs With A Political Dimension To Them Sometimes, But I'm Always Slightly Appalled By It When I Do.

I Don't Think People Should Abuse The Fact That They Are In Showbiz. You Still Have To Be Human. I Think That's The Point. Showbiz Is About Showing Human Things - Just Amplified, That's All. And When It Gets Too Much Into, "hey, We're Part Of The Showbiz Club And We Can Do What We Want," It Turns Me Off And I Hate It.

I Always Feel Like There Are Specific Things About Houston. There's One Museum In Particular In Houston. So Many Of The Things That I'm Interested In Now I Can Sort Of Trace Back To That Museum, Which Introduced Me To Them.

Culture Shouldn't Be A Pacifying Thing. It Shouldn't Be Something That You Just Passively Accept. I Think It Should Be Something That, In Some Ways, Is Quite Disruptive - Makes You Think And Question Things, And Actually Sparks Debate.