I think you have to be very careful getting the balance right if you're going to talk about grand themes like war, death and nationhood. You need to use the right language or don't do it at all.

I feel like "Not For Long" was one for me just because I got to work with two people that I looked up to...

You shouldn't separate the piece from the way it's intended. I always feel like words shouldn't be unraveled from the music. They're all linked so much together.

I've been so used to being supported by musicians, and I don't class myself as a particularly adept musician on instruments. I think I'm a songwriter.

I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a book.

I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.

But even when I do give interviews, I always come across as such a completely different person. It seems like there's no controlling it anyway.