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

Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.

Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.

I long ago learned that you can't expect people to interpret the songs in the way they had meant for you, as the writer.

I'm a visual artist myself and always have been so it's very natural for me to be very concerned with presentation, whether it's artwork or onstage.

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.

Some things lend themselves well to songs, some things don't, and I'm learning that a lot at the moment. It's still a relatively new way of writing. It's only really the last five to 10 years that I've taken my writing seriously in this way, as something I can keep working toward. I think I feel myself much more before as simply a songwriter.