You know if I see a work that really I am very affected by and inspired by then it makes me want to try things with my work that maybe I hadn't considered trying before and I think that is the biggest complement that you can pay somebody.

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 doing quite a lot of painting on stones - little funny fish and animals.

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

I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.

It's so interesting to me how songs take on a shape and body of their own and grow.

If you want to be good at anything, you have to work hard at it. It doesn't just fall from the sky. I work every day at trying to improve my writing, and I really enjoy it. Nothing fascinates me more than putting words together, and seeing how a collection of words can produce quite a profound effect.