I try to see as much dance, theatre and films as I can because all of it feeds me in a way that I need feeding for what I do.

People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.

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

I'm finding that writing poetry is strengthening my songwriting, because you're learning to make a piece of writing work on a page with nothing else. I was also finding within poetry I felt a lot more free to write about very different matters, to write about social issues or things that are going on around me.

Any of these contemporary war situations, whether civilian or soldier on either side - that's what I was interested in. The people who are being affected. Not so much the political speak at the top of the food chain, but the people who are affected by it on the ground.

My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.

I'm finding my way, and I make mistakes.