I've so much left to explore, it's enormously exciting to me. It's a passion. I just try and get better at what I do, and I study it very hard, like it is my life degree.

My mom is a sculptress.

Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.

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

It's so interesting to me how songs take on a shape and body of their own and grow.

I knew what I didn't want to do- that's always my starting point. The starting point is always that I don't want to repeat myself. Or I try my best not to, with varying degrees of success.

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.