It's good to feel excited by the environment you're in..

It [ "Not For Long"] was the biggest song that I've had, and I actually heard it on the radio multiple times..

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….

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..

Writing is something that I practice at every day to get better at..

What we are fed through the media I do not accept, unless you see it with your own eyes you cant trust anything..

Maybe you're a singer or not, but what taps into the soul leads to the heart, and that's really what I came away with, with the starting point for th….

Like I have to pretend like I'm a male rapper, that I got stacks and we're in the club, and what do I want to say. And then, when writing Rare I coul….

I think you have to be very careful getting the balance right if you're going to talk about grand themes like war, death and nationhood. You need to ….

You can sing a very aggressive word in such a way that it's very funny. You can change words, completely turn them around on their head so that they ….

Everything from a lifetime's worth of collecting things. You know as we go through life, and something stays and ends up on your shelf and lives ther….

My town was even smaller. Only six hundred people. We didn't have a grocery store..

I've always been very interested in the visual aspect of what I do..

I feel like I make a soundtrack for the come up, and I feel like there's so many people that's trying to figure out how to chase their dreams, or tha….

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….

[Writing] has helped me meet people..

I would listen most particularly to the countries whose language I didn't understand, didn't know what they were singing. But being a singer myself, ….

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs..

If anything, I hope being an artist opens up more opportunities 'cause I feel there's a lot of things I could do, like musically and stylistic-wise t….

In the past members of my family on both my mother's and father's side have fought in the war, in the first and second World Wars. Unfortunately, the….