I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a book.

I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.

I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.

I think I've been interested in music since I was little.

You shouldn't separate the piece from the way it's intended. I always feel like words shouldn't be unraveled from the music. They're all linked so much together.

You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different.

I just started writing and writing for people. And then, like I guess after (a) year of getting some placements, I kinda got a shot to be an artist. Long story short I think, yeah.