“I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather tha”

“I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.”