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I have this obsession with pea pods. They're just really nice to look at. They can be perfect.

I wrote a techno song about the four things I love in Germany to make myself happy, which are my grandfather, my two poodle pets, bread, and a strange but delicious Turkish dish called Doener Kebab.

I write to satisfy the story or poem or piece of fascinating research that speaks to me. To rub a sore, to resonate with joy, to answer a question no one else has satisfactorily answered for me.

Writing has always been an interest of mine, and 'The Language of Flowers' combined my experience with foster care with something I've always wanted to do.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.

I never dreamed that the little ditties I wrote about annoying customers or bagel recipes would turn into a full-length musical comedy. But a very wise person told me to 'write what you know'. So I did.

I didn't mean to be a songwriter; I just was writing for fun, you have all day to do it. I was homeless so that's all I had to do.

I write with humour about sadness, to introduce an element of sweet to the sour, a bit like Turkish food.

With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.