I never feel that I have to adopt a character. It's more the way I choose to present the music and that's always based on what is right for the song.

People want to build musicians into mythical beings.

If you come at the record feeling really happy and optimistic, it can be incredibly beautiful and uplifting, and if you come at it in a bleak moment, it can feel like a very dark place to share. It's all down to the listener.

Ever since time began: What song is not about love? Whether it's about love from man to woman or parent to child, or grandmother to granddaughter... It just goes on and on. Or whether it's the love of one's country.

People have this idea of me being some kind of monster, and that's the complete opposite of who I am.

Writing is something that I practice at every day to get better at.

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.