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" I'm not a funny person. "

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" I have a classical music background. I studied violin and trumpet. "

" We all have these shades in our nature: it's a spectrum within all of us. "

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" I find it hugely exciting to be dealing with another writer's language. "

" I don't really write songs. They're just there anyway, chiseling away at the atmosphere, and suddenly they're like, 'Oh, thanks for coming. Thanks for finding me. We'll share each other now.' "

" I think Bob Odenkirk is phenomenal. "

" The pop industry is so well-practised at channelling young people's creative energy that I think it gets abused. "

" Diane Cluck is part of the anti-folk movement in New York. She's got a really haunting voice, and she usually sings in the pentatonic scale. "

" Not listening is the reason for so many misunderstandings and conflicts. "

" I imagine that, for most people, acting isn't something they think is a viable option, whereas for me, it was the most viable option. No adults around me knew how to do anything else. "

" My only incentive is to write music that changes me, where the process of making it is a discovery and is true in some way, at that moment. "

" I actually do bits of my writing in sort of incidental spaces - when I'm traveling on the Tube or on a bus. More often than not, it's a reaction to how you feel about something, and if you're sitting down and concentrating on, 'I must write something,' then you can't have a truthful reaction. "

" The truth is there's always a hum of people playing folk music in cities. "

" I like getting older. I always looked younger than I was, and I found that people wouldn't give me the room to speak. The older I get, it's like, 'Oh, I'm still talking, and they're still listening.' "

" I'm a huge David Hockney fan. "

" I'm obsessed with pilgrimages. I love following old routes, imagining the consciousness of those who walked them. "

" The world that I know and the world that I come from is from the arts, and my wife's an artist, and I've been a musician since I left college, and there's tons of musicians I'd love to play. "

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" I guess I started writing poetry and stuff and then decided to set it to music. "

" I like the idea of letting the music do its own work and the stories being more expressionful - if that's a word - in people's imagination. I've just got a thing about people and songs telling you how you should feel. "

" My father was an actor. Both of my older brothers are actors. My younger sister is an actress. For me, that's my job; that's my craft. But then all through school and through drama school, I was gigging and running nights and playing in bands, and I just didn't want to let that go. "

" I take them both seriously - I don't particularly want to be an 'actor-musician.' I want to play the great challenging parts, to be right for the part, rather than just, 'Oh, he can play the fiddle.' "