[Writing] has helped me meet people.

I feel like "Not For Long" was one for me just because I got to work with two people that I looked up to...

I think a lot of people have an idealistic view - if you grow up in the country, there can't possibly be anything wrong with you.

I've so much left to explore, it's enormously exciting to me. It's a passion. I just try and get better at what I do, and I study it very hard, like it is my life degree.

I would listen most particularly to the countries whose language I didn't understand, didn't know what they were singing. But being a singer myself, I could understand because of the emotion.

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.

I like to be around things that I find inspiring.