Everything from a lifetime's worth of collecting things. You know as we go through life, and something stays and ends up on your shelf and lives there until you die? Just those little things.

With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.

There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.

It's good to feel excited by the environment you're in.

I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.

I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in that way.

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.