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.

Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.

I'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.

I feel like the actual, the most beautiful thing about a song is that it is something that goes out there in the universe and people use it in the way that they need it in their lives.

I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.

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

I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.