I like things that are beaten up, that have lived a little. I like things that are real. I like things that are made out of wood or string. I never feel very responsive to plastic machinery.

My town was even smaller. Only six hundred people. We didn't have a grocery store.

Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.

I like to be around things that I find inspiring.

I see men come and go, but there'll be one who'll collect my soul.

I'm finding that writing poetry is strengthening my songwriting, because you're learning to make a piece of writing work on a page with nothing else. I was also finding within poetry I felt a lot more free to write about very different matters, to write about social issues or things that are going on around me.

I just started writing and writing for people. And then, like I guess after (a) year of getting some placements, I kinda got a shot to be an artist. Long story short I think, yeah.