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I swear to God I was freaked out about the Aswang when I was a kid in the Philippines.

You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music.

I was being categorized as some kind of twangy songwriter. And that's just not how I see myself.

My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.

I'm very Southern in the way I walk in the world. I love to laugh. I love to eat. I love to hug people. But if somebody makes me mad, my neck may roll. I can be aggressive with a Southern twang.

Growing up in the middle of nowhere, there was a lot of twangy music around, but it didn't really connect with me then.

I'm a yogi, not a businessman.

The reader feels as if he is in Chongjin, where starving people ate the bark off trees; or atop Mount Taesong with the elite of Pyongyang, whose existence is a mix of sadism and whimsy; or with the masses who are bombarded day and night with the propaganda of North Korea's alternate reality.

The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds.

I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.