I remember everyone made this big deal out of it,

On a creative level, I think the songs are simpler in that they're more direct. To be commercially successful just means [your music] has reached more people, which I suppose is a good thing.

Always have sunglasses with you. They're great for when you can't be bothered to put make-up on.

We shot it on blue screen, so it was this great big ugly, metal, weird, jerky horse-thing that Brad Pitt had sat on.

But what's great about working with Will is that I was so bored of working with people who seemed to be much more interested in what was cool or fashionable. Will is very open-minded and even though he's classically trained, he's the only person I've ever met that I feel I can relate to musically. He understands how I think about music and vice-versa.

They seem to have these personalities that are very generic and so I can't really relate to them. I suppose I can't really relate to it on a personal level at all, because you never really understand where the personal comes into what they do.