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

I like things that are beaten up, that have lived a little. I like things that are real. I like things that are made out of wood or string. I never feel very responsive to plastic machinery.

I would listen most particularly to the countries whose language I didn't understand, didn't know what they were singing. But being a singer myself, I could understand because of the emotion.

I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a book.

But even when I do give interviews, I always come across as such a completely different person. It seems like there's no controlling it anyway.

We just kind of lost our way. But we were looking to be free. One day we'll float. Take life as it comes.

My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.