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 think it does surprise me a bit when people have a very fixed idea of what I'm like, based upon the work that I do, which is something that is very separate.

People have this idea of me being some kind of monster, and that's the complete opposite of who I am.

I feel like "Not For Long" was one for me just because I got to work with two people that I looked up to...

I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.

Like I have to pretend like I'm a male rapper, that I got stacks and we're in the club, and what do I want to say. And then, when writing Rare I could just be PJ.

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