I would never feel confident enough to express my views and opinions as the right ones because I just don't think that's possible. There are so many sides to everything that nobody is right or wrong.

I think that most art is asking a question or is looking for something, looking for answers and that is what life seems to be about for most people.

I studied art just short of the level where you can earn a degree.

When I write - I always write on my own - I demo those songs on a four-track.

I see men come and go, but there'll be one who'll collect my soul.

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

I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then 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.