I'm always trying to swim to new ground.

I'm finding that writing poetry is strengthening my songwriting, because you're learning to make a piece of writing work on a page with nothing else. I was also finding within poetry I felt a lot more free to write about very different matters, to write about social issues or things that are going on around me.

But even when I do give interviews, I always come across as such a completely different person. It seems like there's no controlling it anyway.

I am someone that follows the news and reads newspapers yet what do you believe and what don't you.

If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.

I like things that are beaten up, that have lived a little. I like things that are real. I like things that are made out of wood or string. I never feel very responsive to plastic machinery.

People have this idea of me being some kind of monster, and that's the complete opposite of who I am.