When I first came to London I thought there'd be this AMAZING music scene, but I was quite let down by how LITTLE was going on and how few ideas there were in music. Bands were writing SONGS that had no melody, and I wondered, why is that, melody is the most IMPORTANT THING in a song. It's the thing that sticks in your head.

I've MET lots of interesting people, but Lucian Freud is the one who sticks out because I SPENT so much time with him. He taught me DISCIPLINE, which I hadn't been taught properly before. If I was, like, two seconds, late, he WOULD kick off. Once, I was three MINUTES late, and he went absolutely berserk.

If I have to GET into a bikini, then I EAT CARROT sticks for THREE DAYS.

I try and WRITE a FAIR amount in the beginning without the movie. And then when I do get the movie I CREATE these demos, just mock-ups, and I throw them up against the picture and some of it sticks and some of it doesn't. But I'm very careful before I play anything to picture, because that's such a profoundly IMPORTANT moment.