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

Obviously, the emotions I want to convey through music are streamed through the way I interpret life.

You go back and look at some of the ancient writings that exist throughout the world about wars and it's the same; the human beings' articulation of events is the same. That really fascinated me.

I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.

When a poem might become a song, then certain parts are repeated and might become a refrain or a chorus, so they change in that way. But it's more the nature of the words and what they're saying that determines whether it's a poem or a song.

Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.

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.