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.

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 find it hard myself to feel justified to sing in a very politically direct way about war or social conditions because I feel so ignorant of a lot of it.

I think I'm a maker of songs, and songs are like films or a picture: You put them over there, and they have nothing to do with you.

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.

[Writing] has helped me meet people.

The way I make music is unique to myself and the way I have lived my life - no one else would tell that story in the same way that I do.