I had a chip on my shoulders 'cause I felt like I was being overlooked.

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

I think I'm a maker of songs, and songs are like films or a picture: You put them over there, and they have nothing to do with you.

I feel like it's very important that I'm doing what I'm doing, and I want to keep honoring that and try and do it as honestly as I can.

Obviously, the emotions I want to convey through music are streamed through the way I interpret life.

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.

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