In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.

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.

If you come at the record feeling really happy and optimistic, it can be incredibly beautiful and uplifting, and if you come at it in a bleak moment, it can feel like a very dark place to share. It's all down to the listener.

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.

I'm always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs.

We just kind of lost our way. But we were looking to be free. One day we'll float. Take life as it comes.