I don't really consider myself a musician because I don't really know about music. I spent a long time in this band [Alt-J] trying to work at how you write music: what the approach is, how it all happens, how it fits together. But at the end of the day, I don't know things that lots of musicians know - like, you know, what notes I'm playing on the guitar. Terminology that most bands would probably use, like verses and choruses and middle-eights and bridges, we don't really use - simply because we didn't really know what a bridge or a middle-eight was. We weren't restricted by thinking about songwriting in a conventional way.
