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

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

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.

It [ "Not For Long"] was the biggest song that I've had, and I actually heard it on the radio multiple times.

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.

I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.