I've got my laptop, but it troubles me in many ways. I don't have Twitter or Facebook or anything like that. It ruins a romantic idea, which might just be an illusion, a sense of depth or continuity. I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the end of a unique character, of a specific kind of geographical culture. The world is getting so small, and mass production is getting so big. Everything is in danger of becoming the same.

I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.

My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.

I am quite competitive. In stupid things like card games.

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.

I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.

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