I long ago learned that you can't expect people to interpret the songs in the way they had meant for you, as the writer.

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.

Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.

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.

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

I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.

If anything, I hope being an artist opens up more opportunities 'cause I feel there's a lot of things I could do, like musically and stylistic-wise that I can write, but I don't really have an avenue to show it 'cause most of the things I'm writing are in Hip Hop.