I'm not comfortable holidaying in other people's poverty.

I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to justify his painting.

The husk could be some useless bloke or losing myself and changing my DNA with bottomless grief.

The way I write, words can means lots of different things.

I get a feeling, on a guitar, and I sort of mess around until something resonates with me, and then I just find that what happens is that a melody comes, and with that, words.

When I first started writing, a friend said I should be careful because I'm letting people know how to reach right in and play with my workings. And they do!

I don't believe in trouble. Because I think that trouble is sometimes good, sometimes bad. I've been known to be called trouble, which I think is quite a compliment. But I suppose, thinking about it, that my best and worst trouble has always had something to do with a man.