I think I've been interested in music since I was little.

[Writing] has helped me meet people.

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

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

I do write a lot of prose. It's not disciplined enough yet that it's actually become stories, or short stories. The idea of writing a novel seems impossible.

Most of the stuff that I do talk about, about being counted out and being an underdog, 'cause that's what I feel like I am.

I long ago learned that you can't expect people to interpret the songs in the way they had meant for you, as the writer.