Occupation: Musician Birth: October 9, 1969
There's a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a lot of study and quite a lot of hard….
I don't hold onto anything, because it's a waste of energy to do so, really. There's nothing that I can do about the way people want to write about m….
When I'm writing for rappers it's kinda like switching, "Okay, you're not PJ. Now you have to act like a rapper.".
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….
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….
My mom is a sculptress..
Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress..
It varies, I don't think there is any one set way of writing songs or coming up with ideas, it comes in so many ways you know..
I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's ever….
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 try to see as much dance, theatre and films as I can because all of it feeds me in a way that I need feeding for what I do..
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….
Ideas for songs can come from something as simple as a photograph and letting my imagination run wild on an old photograph that I found, or to a film….
We just kind of lost our way. But we were looking to be free. One day we'll float. Take life as it comes..
I am someone that follows the news and reads newspapers yet what do you believe and what don't you..
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….
People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up l….
I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as….
I like things that are beaten up, that have lived a little. I like things that are real. I like things that are made out of wood or string. I never f….
I've always been very politically interested from a very young age and I hadn't felt that was something I could begin to bring into my songwriting be….
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….