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When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.

Sometimes you sing songs about the way you want to feel more than the way you actually do feel.

I feel like the first record was really finding my feet, figuring out what music I wanted to make... Now that I've done that, I feel like I've got a much clearer idea of what I want to sound like and what I want to discover. It's exciting.

I realized that I started writing songs to make people feel how I felt, rather than just making them feel something. That's not the way I should do things.

In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.

I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me.

Sometimes when a record's done, I'm satisfied and I won't listen back to it for a while 'cause I'm usually pretty tired of the songs. Then I've got to learn them again to play them live, and sometimes it takes a while to realise it's a really good record.

The lyrics are always the last thing I do. I always have a recording of basic tracks and maybe some of the lead work. I'll sit back and listen to it, and I'll just concentrate on what kind of feeling it gives me. My goal writing the lyrics is to not disrupt that feeling.

I only record songs that touch me in some way, ones that I can relate to.