I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the thing….

When I was young, I had idols that I thought were wonderful. I wanted to be just like them..

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

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..

Being a recording artist and having thousands of people listening to your music and singing your songs, and paying for it? It feels great!.

There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sun….

I think it does surprise me a bit when people have a very fixed idea of what I'm like, based upon the work that I do, which is something that is very….

I'm finding that writing poetry is strengthening my songwriting, because you're learning to make a piece of writing work on a page with nothing else.….

I feel like it's very important that I'm doing what I'm doing, and I want to keep honoring that and try and do it as honestly as I can..

I think a lot of people have an idealistic view - if you grow up in the country, there can't possibly be anything wrong with you..

I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree..

I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano..

I am someone that follows the news and reads newspapers yet what do you believe and what don't you..

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

I find it hard myself to feel justified to sing in a very politically direct way about war or social conditions because I feel so ignorant of a lot o….

Well, I'm quite a self-deprecating person..

I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in that way..

I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into….

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly kno….

Before I record for real, I know pretty much exactly how I want them to feel..

I really don't pay too much attention; I don't go out of my way to read any interviews..