Simon Hale, the British arranger, does all string and wood arrangements on my records.

My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected.

The difficult thing about a pop record is that you're given guidelines: it has to have 3 choruses, and then it must be between 3 minutes fifteen seconds and three minutes forty-five seconds.

Happy music doesn't tend to move me much.

But I can't really say there is too much modern music that I'm blown away by at this moment.

For my second record I had gotten ProTools (program) and started to familiar myself with hard disc recording.