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I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.
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With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.
- Discipline
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There's also 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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I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.
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As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I was actually settled upon when I was offered a record deal.
- Different Countries
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I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other.
- Human
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I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.
- Family
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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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I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters.
- Another Way
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Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
- People
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Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.
- Mind
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I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.
- Music
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I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.
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I think I'm a songwriter. 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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There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
- Good Music
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I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
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