There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.

I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other. I've always been very affected by politics, society, but I never got to a place as a writer where I felt like I could begin to deal with such things and do it well.

I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.

I feel like when I'm writing for other people, when I'm doing rap hooks, it's kinda like playing dress up for me...

And all of these writers offer me a greater understanding of what it is to be alive, and that is such an incredible thing art can do for other people. It made me want to try and get close to this strange, mysterious thing that people can do with words.

Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.

But even when I do give interviews, I always come across as such a completely different person. It seems like there's no controlling it anyway.