But huge photographs of dead bodies are slightly different. I couldn't find much humor there..

I never feel that I have to adopt a character. It's more the way I choose to present the music and that's always based on what is right for the song..

Ive always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply..

I've been so used to being supported by musicians, and I don't class myself as a particularly adept musician on instruments. I think I'm a songwriter..

I long ago learned that you can't expect people to interpret the songs in the way they had meant for you, as the writer..

I just love having no clothes on outside, and the only time to do that is when the sun's shining. It's a wonderful sensation to not have any clothes ….

And all of these writers offer me a greater understanding of what it is to be alive, and that is such an incredible thing art can do for other people….

I think I just speak on what the regular people are going through outside of love 'cause, of course, there's always gonna be a love song, but there's….

I always wanted to be an artist. I think I was just waiting on somebody to approve me and be like, "Oh, okay, you should be an artist," you know 'cau….

When a poem might become a song, then certain parts are repeated and might become a refrain or a chorus, so they change in that way. But it's more th….

I didn't even know the industry of songwriting existed. I thought everybody sang songs and they were only singing the songs that they wrote. So after….

I have learnt through doing interviews throughout my life that the way that somebody can write about something can change entirely how it was meant, ….

People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses..

As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I was actually settled upon when I was offered a ….

I think I've been interested in music since I was little..

If you want to be good at anything, you have to work hard at it. It doesn't just fall from the sky. I work every day at trying to improve my writing,….

I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters. But at the same time I care very much about my work and I ….

But even when I do give interviews, I always come across as such a completely different person. It seems like there's no controlling it anyway..

[I] try to do both because the writing for me, to be a new artist, the writing is gonna pay the bills..

Shame is the shadow of love..

What Rare [albom] allows me to do is gonna show people other things that I'm capable of 'cause they really haven't heard a lot of things outside of t….