I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.

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

The way I make music is unique to myself and the way I have lived my life - no one else would tell that story in the same way that I do.

If you want to be good at anything, you have to work hard at it. It doesn't just fall from the sky. I work every day at trying to improve my writing, and I really enjoy it. Nothing fascinates me more than putting words together, and seeing how a collection of words can produce quite a profound effect.

I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in that way.

I really don't pay too much attention; I don't go out of my way to read any interviews.

I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters. But at the same time I care very much about my work and I would like people to know that it exists. So I appreciate that there's a meeting point, where I would like people to know about the work that I'm doing, and that requires me to talk about it.