I'm the first to admit that I'm still pretty young.

I speak because I can to anyone I trust enough to listen.

I remember my father playing me Same Situation when I was a nipper, and saying how nobody since has done melodies as well as Joni Mitchell. I concur. The thing that most affected me was just her resonance, and that is something she must have been born with.

People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.

I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion.

I would never sit and write a song in front of anyone, because you're so vulnerable. I don't know at what point in the process that it becomes acceptable to pass them on. When a song wants to be written, it will be written. When it does come, I will very rarely go back and edit lyrics. I'm quite a rational human being, and the only part of my life that I can't rationalise, or can't make sense of, is how a song gets written or why.

If I don't have an outlet in which to express myself...throug h songwriting or other mediums...I get a bit jittery.