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I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.

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

I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then 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.

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There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.

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I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.

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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.

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I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

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People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.

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My mom is a sculptress.

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I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

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