I have a tendency to become very self-critical.

One of my earliest memories of writing at a piano was alongside my sister.

I have spent my whole career worrying that the big bad pop monster was going to eat me when I wasn't looking.

Aesthetically, London is just beautiful; it's a gorgeous city. The architecture, monuments, the parks, the small streets - it's an incredible place to be.

If you change a character too much, the audience falls out of love with the character, but characters need to evolve and grow over the years.

Change is an internal thing. Different things happen or transform, and music and art is a documentation of that.

I always find myself gravitating toward stories of transformation, and one of those periods is teenage life. When teenagers are figuring out who they are and have one foot in childhood and the other in adulthood - I think that's a really mythic moment to tell stories about.

Life does depend on accurate replication of molecules, and its complexity often requires that an enzyme shall accept one molecular species or type and transform it to equally specific products.