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

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.

I make tiny wooden people with bits of hair. Puppets and things like that.

I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.

To think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because Im just learning like everybody else.

I'm finding my way, and I make mistakes.

I feel that my dreamscapes are part of my everyday life, and sometimes I can't tell the difference.