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

Ive always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.

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.

When I was young, I had idols that I thought were wonderful. I wanted to be just like them.

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

I am someone that follows the news and reads newspapers yet what do you believe and what don't you.