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

But huge photographs of dead bodies are slightly different. I couldn't find much humor there.

I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.

In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.

When a poem might become a song, then certain parts are repeated and might become a refrain or a chorus, so they change in that way. But it's more the nature of the words and what they're saying that determines whether it's a poem or a song.

I think you have to be very careful getting the balance right if you're going to talk about grand themes like war, death and nationhood. You need to use the right language or don't do it at all.

Most of the stuff that I do talk about, about being counted out and being an underdog, 'cause that's what I feel like I am.