In the creative act, you kind of reach down and look for things that will, when put together, create an emotional effect.

In the creative act, you kind of reach down and look for things that will, when put together, create an emotional effect.

I find everything a struggle.

Wonder in everything No matter how great or small... Same thing that's scrawled across the stars Is written under our skin... There's a time to search for understanding Sometimes you just got to sing New horizons, new horizon within

Everything's stolen. Everything precious - be it a kiss, or be it James Brown - gets misappropriated to the aid of the advertising executives. So, an act of reclamation, somewhere else to be: that's what I want my music to be. Somewhere you can step into. A place.

In terms of writing, I think something happens to you, and you think, "Oh I'm going to write about that. That's an emotional event." But obviously, if you keep going, and it's something you do with regularity, you've got to find other ways to write.

I don't really know why I'm such an emotional person, that's just how I was born. It's a problem. It's not easy to be married to me.