I think when you have a lot of jumbled up ideas they come together slowly over a period of several years.
An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as me.
He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a city fellow, but I've often had vague thoughts about 'checking out' and perhaps going into a monastery and just seeing what it was like.