I feel like "Not For Long" was one for me just because I got to work with two people that I looked up to...

Any of these contemporary war situations, whether civilian or soldier on either side - that's what I was interested in. The people who are being affected. Not so much the political speak at the top of the food chain, but the people who are affected by it on the ground.

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.

My mom is a sculptress.

I feel like "Not For Long" was one for me just because I got to work with two people that I looked up to...

I've always felt profoundly about what's going on in the world on a daily basis. What I hadn't felt was that I was at a point in my writing career where I could write about these things in songs and do it well.

If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.