Occupation: Musician Birth: October 9, 1969
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, ….
It's so interesting to me how songs take on a shape and body of their own and grow..
People have this idea of me being some kind of monster, and that's the complete opposite of who I am..
With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that….
I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels..
I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree..
Yeah, I mean I am somebody that makes an effort to go and see a lot of exhibitions, painting, drawing, sculpture..
Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work..
It's good to feel excited by the environment you're in..
I do take enormous interest in what's going on. I try to see whatever I can, whenever I can..
It [ "Not For Long"] was the biggest song that I've had, and I actually heard it on the radio multiple times..
Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it..
Any of these contemporary war situations, whether civilian or soldier on either side - that's what I was interested in. The people who are being affe….
If you come at the record feeling really happy and optimistic, it can be incredibly beautiful and uplifting, and if you come at it in a bleak moment,….
There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises..
I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets..
My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family busi….
At this point in my life, I'm probably not gonna be able to stop writing because it's gonna help me be able to do what I need to do..
I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals..
To think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because Im just learning like everybody else..
[I] try to do both because the writing for me, to be a new artist, the writing is gonna pay the bills..