It's so interesting to me how songs take on a shape and body of their own and grow.

I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then 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.

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 think I'm a maker of songs, and songs are like films or a picture: You put them over there, and they have nothing to do with you.

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

First off, I think nudity is taken differently in America, though they did make a fuss in England, too.

I would never feel confident enough to express my views and opinions as the right ones because I just don't think that's possible. There are so many sides to everything that nobody is right or wrong.