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

And all of these writers offer me a greater understanding of what it is to be alive, and that is such an incredible thing art can do for other people. It made me want to try and get close to this strange, mysterious thing that people can do with words.

People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.

The way I make music is unique to myself and the way I have lived my life - no one else would tell that story in the same way that I do.

What we are fed through the media I do not accept, unless you see it with your own eyes you cant trust anything.

When I'm writing for rappers it's kinda like switching, "Okay, you're not PJ. Now you have to act like a rapper."

I do take enormous interest in what's going on. I try to see whatever I can, whenever I can.