I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope

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] try to do both because the writing for me, to be a new artist, the writing is gonna pay the bills.

I think that most art is asking a question or is looking for something, looking for answers and that is what life seems to be about for most people.

I try to see as much dance, theatre and films as I can because all of it feeds me in a way that I need feeding for what I do.

I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.

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.