I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in that way.

I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.

I've so much left to explore, it's enormously exciting to me. It's a passion. I just try and get better at what I do, and I study it very hard, like it is my life degree.

If you want to be good at anything, you have to work hard at it. It doesn't just fall from the sky. I work every day at trying to improve my writing, and I really enjoy it. Nothing fascinates me more than putting words together, and seeing how a collection of words can produce quite a profound effect.

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.

I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope