At this point in my life, I'm probably not gonna be able to stop writing because it's gonna help me be able to do what I need to do.

I also like a lot of silence, and when you're touring, it's constantly noise, all the time, you're surrounded with 15 or 20 people the entire time. I find that tough.

[I] try to do both because the writing for me, to be a new artist, the writing is gonna pay the bills.

Shame is the shadow of love.

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.

When I write - I always write on my own - I demo those songs on a four-track.

I've always been very politically interested from a very young age and I hadn't felt that was something I could begin to bring into my songwriting because I hadn't felt I'd reached the stage, that I had the skill with language enough, yet, to do that.