I have a voice that's obviously untrained - and I think untrainable - so I kind of secreted it away for a long time. Actually, I would write songs with lyrics when I was younger, but I would just sing in my head.

I have a lot of interest in interior rhyming; not just rhyming at the end of the lines, but playing around with rhymes within the lines, playing with where the syllabic emphases in the sentences are, lining those up at strange moments in the line of the song. I’m not sure if that comes across or not.

I don't think I'm abnormal and I think that lets people down.

I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes.

I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.

I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.

Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.