Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time.

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

I'm always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day.

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.

I've been so used to being supported by musicians, and I don't class myself as a particularly adept musician on instruments. I think I'm a songwriter.

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's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.