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.

Ive always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.

People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.

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

To think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because Im just learning like everybody else.

I make tiny wooden people with bits of hair. Puppets and things like that.

Love for money is my sin, any man calls, I'll let him in.