My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest.

The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereotypical life-or-death songs millions of times. It's good to mix it up a little bit.

I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.

The songs that hit the radio are different from the rest of the things we do. If you just hear the singles, the crossovers, the stuff on Top 40, you get the wrong idea. When I think Top 40, I think Matchbox 20. We're definitely a rock band.

See, I'm a Pisces, so I get down with love songs. I'm totally into slow jams and old-school R&B, all that.

I love that record, it's a classic. It's one of those songs that if you hear it when you're having a bad day, really hits you. The way he sings it makes you feel the whole world is against you.