I wrote the song 'Angels Standing By'... to try and soothe myself - rock myself to sleep, basically - because I was so scared and stressed.

The worst thing about getting your heart broken is going to sleep and knowing you're going to wake up and nothing has changed

It's awfully hard to fit my poems into song, ... I have a hard time fitting the poetic stanza into the timed meter of the music stanza, because you always have to end with a rhyme and there's always a beat.

When you wake up with a song stuck in your head, it means an angel sang you to sleep.

It is a progression overall, a moving from say a (short) rock song to an eight-minute epic, just basically not creating a wall where you can only do one thing.

Think, in mounting higher, The angels would press on us, and aspire To drop some golden orb of perfect song Into our deep, dear silence.