Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.

When one doesn’t want the limelight, but is also creative in developing whatever it is they are, then you can have two equal people that aren’t competing against each other. I think when you are in the same field, it’s difficult to leave it outside and not compete. Then when the doors are closed, that pervades everything.

My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.

There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying 'What can I learn?.' That's a very different approach.

There's a sea secret in me / it's plain to see it is rising / but I must be flowing liquid diamonds / calling for my soul / at the corners of the world

I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger.

What I want is not to want what isn't mine