I just started writing and writing for people. And then, like I guess after (a) year of getting some placements, I kinda got a shot to be an artist. Long story short I think, yeah.

I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.

Some things lend themselves well to songs, some things don't, and I'm learning that a lot at the moment. It's still a relatively new way of writing. It's only really the last five to 10 years that I've taken my writing seriously in this way, as something I can keep working toward. I think I feel myself much more before as simply a songwriter.

When I write - I always write on my own - I demo those songs on a four-track.

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 don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.

The way I make music is unique to myself and the way I have lived my life - no one else would tell that story in the same way that I do.