I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.

Ever since time began: What song is not about love? Whether it's about love from man to woman or parent to child, or grandmother to granddaughter... It just goes on and on. Or whether it's the love of one's country.

I also like a lot of silence, and when you're touring, it's constantly noise, all the time, you're surrounded with 15 or 20 people the entire time. I find that tough.

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'm doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.

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

I like to be around things that I find inspiring.