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'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.

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.

The artists that I love- whether painters or filmmakers- it's because something resonates in me because I've felt it.

Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time.

I was really influenced by a lot of Disney soundtracks, because that's what I used to watch all the time, and they always put music in it, which is why I tend to have popular melodies over harder beats.

In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.