Some things lend themselves well to songs, some things don't, and I'm learning that a lot at the moment. It's still a relatively new way of writing. It's only really the last five to 10 years that I've taken my writing seriously in this way, as something I can keep working toward. I think I feel myself much more before as simply a songwriter.

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.

In college, I thought I wanted to be solely an artist, and then when I got here, to college, I was like, "Okay, well I want to be a songwriter," 'cause it was like close to Nashville.

I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.

I have learnt through doing interviews throughout my life that the way that somebody can write about something can change entirely how it was meant, or what actually happened.

It varies, I don't think there is any one set way of writing songs or coming up with ideas, it comes in so many ways you know.

If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.