So it whittled down to these ten songs. There were a couple more I was dying to have on the record but they just weren't ready. I know they're all there waiting and I'm fine with that." You obviously wrote these songs in a very different situation to the one you're in now, do the lyrics tell you anything about yourself back then? "Yeah! Someone was telling me the other day that when you write some people use a certain part of the brain and it means that the bit that's social, the bit that's sitting here now shuts down. I think that's what happens with me. I don't really have a context for the part of me that writes. I realised much later the part of me that writes is much smarter than any other part of me. I don't even know the connection it's making. It really does feel like an It, another being. I'm always amazed when I look back and put the pieces together. I often do that interviews, people ask me questions and I think, I never thought of that, brilliant! I'm often surprised at the underlying themes of songs." Well your album has quite a rural, pastoral feel, yet you just said you fled the countryside... "It has got a rural, pastoral feel but a lot of that was written in the dead centre of London, in Kings Cross. I used to live at the top of Pentonville Road, in those really tall houses