I'm a visual artist myself and always have been so it's very natural for me to be very concerned with presentation, whether it's artwork or onstage.

Obviously, the emotions I want to convey through music are streamed through the way I interpret life.

In the past members of my family on both my mother's and father's side have fought in the war, in the first and second World Wars. Unfortunately, they're dead and I wasn't able to speak to them, but that was in our family history too.

I never feel that I have to adopt a character. It's more the way I choose to present the music and that's always based on what is right for the song.

I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.

I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.

I feel like it's very important that I'm doing what I'm doing, and I want to keep honoring that and try and do it as honestly as I can.