Love songs come in many guises and are seemingly written for many reasons – as declarations or to wound – I have written songs for all of these reasons – but ultimately the love songs exist to fill, with language, the silence between ourselves and God, to decrease the distance between the temporal and the divine.

What you're really after when you see a film or listen to a song is a singular vision, and I'm not sure how much of that you really get in Hollywood.

I just want to leave this world with a massive catalog of songs.

The actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist.

I've always hated narrative songs. I hate those songs where, basically, it's an unfolding of a story.