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 probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.

To think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because Im just learning like everybody else.

I see men come and go, but there'll be one who'll collect my soul.

I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a book.

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.

It varies, I don't think there is any one set way of writing songs or coming up with ideas, it comes in so many ways you know.