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.

People want to build musicians into mythical beings.

I make tiny wooden people with bits of hair. Puppets and things like that.

I'm a visual artist myself and always have been so it's very natural for me to be very concerned with presentation, whether it's artwork or onstage.

Yeah, I mean I am somebody that makes an effort to go and see a lot of exhibitions, painting, drawing, sculpture.

What we are fed through the media I do not accept, unless you see it with your own eyes you cant trust anything.

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