But even when I do give interviews, I always come across as such a completely different person. It seems like there's no controlling it anyway.

I long ago learned that you can't expect people to interpret the songs in the way they had meant for you, as the writer.

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.

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'm always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day.

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

My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.