I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs.

We just kind of lost our way. But we were looking to be free. One day we'll float. Take life as it comes.

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.

Everything from a lifetime's worth of collecting things. You know as we go through life, and something stays and ends up on your shelf and lives there until you die? Just those little things.

The craft, the writing of a song, is about creating a story, a life story, a world within three minutes, but that's the frame, if you like, the picture frame. That fascinates me.

My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.

I long ago learned that you can't expect people to interpret the songs in the way they had meant for you, as the writer.