Fly with me, touch the face of the true God. And then cry with joy at the depth of my love.

Some things lend themselves well to songs, some things don't, and I'm learning that a lot at the moment. It's still a relatively new way of writing. It's only really the last five to 10 years that I've taken my writing seriously in this way, as something I can keep working toward. I think I feel myself much more before as simply a songwriter.

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.

I have learnt through doing interviews throughout my life that the way that somebody can write about something can change entirely how it was meant, or what actually happened.

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

I think Ive got a pretty good sense of humor.

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