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" My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism. "

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" I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life. "

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" I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me. "

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" When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening. "

" I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone. "

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" When a song wants to be written, it will be written. "

" It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I'd move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a confirmed urbanite now - it crept up on me without me noticing. I always think that I function quite well on my own, unusually so, but then I'm reminded how important people are to me. "

" It took a lot of time and practice for me to realise that there's no point trying to be something you're not. "

" I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night. "

" I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers. "

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" You are what you can prove you've done. That's how people judge you. "

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" I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning. "

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" I'm reluctantly interested in love and helplessly interested in logic and yet they're so conflicting. And they're both necessary for a happy balance, a happy existence... I think. "

" All my songs come from me because I only seem able to write about myself and my experiences. "

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