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

I think a lot of people have an idealistic view - if you grow up in the country, there can't possibly be anything wrong with you.

I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.

What we are fed through the media I do not accept, unless you see it with your own eyes you cant trust anything.

I feel like I'm being put inside a box, and I'm not necessarily getting a chance. Like I'm not getting the shot that I deserve. So that's what Rare is about 'cause I feel because I am the way that I am, and I don't necessarily fit the mold of a lot of different artists that's out, it's like I'm not getting the chance to show what I can do. So, that's basically all the frustration of that, and everything is pretty much Rare for me anyway.

I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.

There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.