Ninety percent of all music is always crap and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law.

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.

I've always said that Adele has turned so many people on to British singers - whether female singers or just like music from this country in general.

Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general water sounds - there's music in water. Brooks babbling fountains splashing. Weirs waterfalls tumbling gushing.

People always try to find my agenda but I don't really have one. It's safe to say that I make pop but I think that I'm doing important music too. I've just always done what I wanted to do.

Oh I will always be honest with my music. The records are black boxes for me. Like if you want to know who I am my views my perspective things I love things I hate my convictions my anthems. I've never let people's opinions affect the way I write.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

For instance I'm always fascinated to see whether given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.