I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school.

There's what people say, and there's what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.

This thing with being lovers, it isn't like being married.

I'm a much better writer for being a father.

I guess people have a hard time dealing with humour in music. But sometimes life is depressing, and sometimes life is fun, is about just laughing with your friends, and I wanted to express that as well as the darker stuff.

Music has been so healing in my life, so the fact that my music could be that for someone else is the best gift of my whole career. People have told me that they got married to my music, divorced to my music, and played my music while they were having their baby.

I think that 'Prayers' is a really interesting one because we wrote it well before the border crisis was happening, and in that first verse, I was actually writing about the experience of me and my wife's relationship and finding someone who you feel safe with and you relate to and can ponder existence with.

I have two beautiful children, a wife who loves me very much and who I love - and my career is going well, too.