I do take enormous interest in what's going on. I try to see whatever I can, whenever I can.

I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.

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'm always trying to swim to new ground.

There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.

I feel that my dreamscapes are part of my everyday life, and sometimes I can't tell the difference.

I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.