A Gentleman Never Talks About His Tailor.

I Have To Be Able To Pull You In. How Can I Diversify My Audiences? What Role Do I Have To Play To Be Part Of That Shift? I Have To Take That Seriously.

Everybody Tends To Overplay Live. That's Just The Nature Of Playing Live. And That Can Be Great, But It Can Also Kill Something That's Special, And Intimate, About A Recorded Version Of A Song. You Find Out Very Quickly Which Songs You Can Play, And Which Songs You Do Damage To By Playing Them Live.

I've Always Done A Lot Of Research And Stuff Around The Songs That I Write So There Are Pages And Pages Of Writing And You Can Kind Of See These Songs Emerging.

The Idea Of Songwriting Is A Transformative Thing, And What I Do With Songwriting Is Take Situations That Are Quite Ordinary And Transform Them In Some Way. Apart From Things Like The Murder Ballads, The Songs I Write, At Their Core, Are Quite Ordinary Human Concerns, But The Process Of Writing About Them Transforms Them Into Something Else.

Do I Personally Believe In A Personal God? No.