I don't hold onto anything, because it's a waste of energy to do so, really. There's nothing that I can do about the way people want to write about me. I just try and concentrate on my work and do that as well as I can.

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

It's good to feel excited by the environment you're in.

First off, I think nudity is taken differently in America, though they did make a fuss in England, too.

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

Folk music was to strengthen and unify people, whether it was through an uprising and rebellion or whether is was through hard work, bringing in crops. But it was to strengthen each other and that's still what music is about today.

I feel like I make a soundtrack for the come up, and I feel like there's so many people that's trying to figure out how to chase their dreams, or that are in the process of chasing their dreams, so they connect with that. And then being a singer, you don't really get to touch on nothing either.