I don't like things to be handed to me on a plate; that means nothing. I like to go through layers of unraveling and every time I listen to something, it makes me feel something different. Now I'm aware of the conflict that's going on, but at the time I just let what was happening happen.

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.

What we are fed through the media I do not accept, unless you see it with your own eyes you cant trust anything.

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 think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.

I am someone that follows the news and reads newspapers yet what do you believe and what don't you.