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

Most of the stuff that I do talk about, about being counted out and being an underdog, 'cause that's what I feel like I am.

Never settle for anything less than you want.

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.

I try to see as much dance, theatre and films as I can because all of it feeds me in a way that I need feeding for what I do.

The artists that I love- whether painters or filmmakers- it's because something resonates in me because I've felt it.

I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.