You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different.

I've always felt profoundly about what's going on in the world on a daily basis. What I hadn't felt was that I was at a point in my writing career where I could write about these things in songs and do it well.

I've been so used to being supported by musicians, and I don't class myself as a particularly adept musician on instruments. I think I'm a songwriter.

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

There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.

I think it does surprise me a bit when people have a very fixed idea of what I'm like, based upon the work that I do, which is something that is very separate.

Everything from a lifetime's worth of collecting things. You know as we go through life, and something stays and ends up on your shelf and lives there until you die? Just those little things.