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.

Well, I'm quite a self-deprecating person.

I'm always writing, the past 10 years. A lot has changed, in that it's something I do every day.

If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.

I think I just speak on what the regular people are going through outside of love 'cause, of course, there's always gonna be a love song, but there's so many other parts of life... being lost, feeling your way around, what you gonna do next.

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.

In the past members of my family on both my mother's and father's side have fought in the war, in the first and second World Wars. Unfortunately, they're dead and I wasn't able to speak to them, but that was in our family history too.