At my shows, I like everyone to have a good time... but, I like for us to be real because there's freedom in that.
I believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They represent the truest freedom we can experience. Totally unrepressed and totally creative.
Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.
I guess when we're young, we all have that fascination with flying.
I mostly wrote 'Thursday's Child' to explore the idea of a wild child - a creature who lived much as humans used to live, when our needs were simple and our worlds were small.
I spent my 16th birthday high as a kite, jumping out of a tree topless in my local park just because it felt amazing hitting the ground.
Set the gearshift for the high gear of your soul, you've got to run like an antelope out of control!
My mom used to call us 'free range kids,' like free range chickens... We roamed the countryside.
I wanna scream and dream and throw a love parade / Is that okay?
I grew up at a time in Singapore - the '70s and '80s - where it was still possible to go riding around the island barefoot. And I was one of these kids that was just climbing trees and running around the neighbourhood.
In my early twenties, the whole experience of going on tour was like losing myself in this slightly wild environment.
For a man so incredibly hairy and square, watching my dad get on a bike was like watching a penguin spread its wings and take flight. He'd take off at inhuman speed, a smile on his face, and never look back.
That idea of not always being in control of the primitive parts of yourself - the bits that fall in love or the bits that dance or lose the plot or drink too much - and putting that across... that's pop for me. It's playing with all the different colours of the rainbow of life.
I saw above a sea of hills A solitary planet shine, And there was no one, near or far, to keep the world from being mine.
