I am someone that follows the news and reads newspapers yet what do you believe and what don't you.

I would never feel confident enough to express my views and opinions as the right ones because I just don't think that's possible. There are so many sides to everything that nobody is right or wrong.

And all of these writers offer me a greater understanding of what it is to be alive, and that is such an incredible thing art can do for other people. It made me want to try and get close to this strange, mysterious thing that people can do with words.

The craft, the writing of a song, is about creating a story, a life story, a world within three minutes, but that's the frame, if you like, the picture frame. That fascinates me.

You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different.

The way I make music is unique to myself and the way I have lived my life - no one else would tell that story in the same way that I do.

I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.