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I like things that are beaten...

I like things that are beaten up, that have lived a little. I like things that are real. I like things that are made out of wood or string. I never feel very responsive to plastic machinery.

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I grab an instrument to make ...

I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.

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I always wanted to be an arti...

I always wanted to be an artist. I think I was just waiting on somebody to approve me and be like, "Oh, okay, you should be an artist," you know 'cause it wasn't until I stopped looking for approval that I could actually do it.

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I've always been very politic...

I've always been very politically interested from a very young age and I hadn't felt that was something I could begin to bring into my songwriting because I hadn't felt I'd reached the stage, that I had the skill with language enough, yet, to do that.

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I've been so used to being su...

I've been so used to being supported by musicians, and I don't class myself as a particularly adept musician on instruments. I think I'm a songwriter.

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I think a lot of people have ...

I think a lot of people have an idealistic view - if you grow up in the country, there can't possibly be anything wrong with you.

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I'm finding that writing poet...

I'm finding that writing poetry is strengthening my songwriting, because you're learning to make a piece of writing work on a page with nothing else. I was also finding within poetry I felt a lot more free to write about very different matters, to write about social issues or things that are going on around me.

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I think blues music is music ...

I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in that way.

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There's a level of discipline...

There's a level of discipline I use as a writer, designed to get better at what I'm doing, that requires quite a lot of study and quite a lot of hard work as well.

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Ideas for songs can come from...

Ideas for songs can come from something as simple as a photograph and letting my imagination run wild on an old photograph that I found, or to a film that I have seen or to just most of the time, just daily walking through life and keeping your eyes open.

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In the same way, I write some...

In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.

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I really don't pay too much a...

I really don't pay too much attention; I don't go out of my way to read any interviews.

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Love for money is my sin, any...

Love for money is my sin, any man calls, I'll let him in.

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When I was young, I had idols...

When I was young, I had idols that I thought were wonderful. I wanted to be just like them.

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And all of these writers offe...

And all of these writers offer me a greater understanding of what it is to be alive, and that is such an incredible thing art can do for other people. It made me want to try and get close to this strange, mysterious thing that people can do with words.

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I enjoy looking like a tart an...

I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.

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My father is actually a quarry...

My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.

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Ive always been very visceral ...

Ive always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply.

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Being a recording artist and h...

Being a recording artist and having thousands of people listening to your music and singing your songs, and paying for it? It feels great!

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I'm always trying to swim to n...

I'm always trying to swim to new ground.

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