As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry and discipline, to try and make it manageable.

Isn't that the goal, as you grow older? That you start reclaiming those parts of yourself you didn't recognize or didn't think were there all along? That's what happened when I made The River and the Thread record.

We are creating a culture where content creators are a new servant class, and paid as such.

Just a thank you is a mighty powerful prayer. Says it all.

If a relationship is founded on love it doesn't end

As John Adams said, all democracies will eventually self-destruct. We seem to be doing it very quickly.

But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it's just perfect. There's nothing that exciting.