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

I feel like the actual, the most beautiful thing about a song is that it is something that goes out there in the universe and people use it in the way that they need it in their lives.

I think a lot of people have an idealistic view - if you grow up in the country, there can't possibly be anything wrong with you.

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

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.

First off, I think nudity is taken differently in America, though they did make a fuss in England, too.

I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.