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.

I'm always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day.

I feel like "Not For Long" was one for me just because I got to work with two people that I looked up to...

I've so much left to explore, it's enormously exciting to me. It's a passion. I just try and get better at what I do, and I study it very hard, like it is my life degree.

I've always been very interested in the visual aspect of what I do.

I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope

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.