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I was a piano player before I was a poet.

I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.

I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write.

I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll sit with my guitar for hours and hours on end for, like, a week and then I won't touch it for a month. I also just have no confidence. And you know what? I don't have time, because I'd rather be doing other things, like knitting.

I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a lot of different influences both linguistically and musically.

I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.

I mean, I don't even think of myself as a musician, really.

I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.

I'm always writing. And, I mean, I always counsel people when they call me a musician: I really do not have the skills of a musician. I really don't think like a musician, though I love music and I perform and sing.