I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.

There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.

I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.

Yeah, I mean I am somebody that makes an effort to go and see a lot of exhibitions, painting, drawing, sculpture.

In the past members of my family on both my mother's and father's side have fought in the war, in the first and second World Wars. Unfortunately, they're dead and I wasn't able to speak to them, but that was in our family history too.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs.

You shouldn't separate the piece from the way it's intended. I always feel like words shouldn't be unraveled from the music. They're all linked so much together.