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

I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.

Obviously, the emotions I want to convey through music are streamed through the way I interpret life.

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

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

My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.

The artists that I love- whether painters or filmmakers- it's because something resonates in me because I've felt it.