I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.

I think I just speak on what the regular people are going through outside of love 'cause, of course, there's always gonna be a love song, but there's so many other parts of life... being lost, feeling your way around, what you gonna do next.

I never feel that I have to adopt a character. It's more the way I choose to present the music and that's always based on what is right for the song.

[I] try to do both because the writing for me, to be a new artist, the writing is gonna pay the bills.

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

The artists that I love- whether painters or filmmakers- it's because something resonates in me because I've felt it.

I've always been very politically interested from a very young age and I hadn't felt that was something I could begin to bring into my songwriting because I hadn't felt I'd reached the stage, that I had the skill with language enough, yet, to do that.