‘I've always wanted my singing voice to sound more or less like my speaking voice, but pitched, with as little artifice or affectation as possible. The voice should be sincere if we are to believe what it is speaking or singing about’.

‘I rarely have a set idea of what I want to create when I get in the studio. More an idea of what instrument I might want to explore at that time. If I do go in with a specific intention, it tends to have evolved into something else by the time it has finished anyway’.

‘We don't know the great thing, we can't know the greatest thing that we will do. All we can do is focus on are where we are coming from, and is it more like love or less? I have a habit of reminding myself and engender a habit in myself, to ask, is it more like love or less? Is there joy, a childish joy in my activity here?’