There is a thread connecting you no matter how far away you are from someone and you know I have two or three relationships in my life that are like that.

I'm always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day.

I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope

There's a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a lot of study and quite a lot of hard work as well.

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.

Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.

But huge photographs of dead bodies are slightly different. I couldn't find much humor there.