Musician

I see magic in conversation and words, and music is purely speaking to others, isn't it?

I'm just thinking about the vision for how I want my music to go and what I want it to say. I'm always creating in a way, even if it's just thinking about it.

I don't want a middle-aged white man telling me how to write my feelings. It's not gonna work for me.

I really like a lot of American country stuff, so my music has that influence, but I don't like to be set within a genre. It feels very limiting.

Every time people try and define me, it gets battered around. I like to keep people guessing.

I was always the sniffly kid with bags under my eyes.

A good song always has to do with the person representing it - how they're feeling in that moment - but I think my songs don't need to be exclusive in terms of gender or race or that kind of thing.

There's not point in doing anything without conviction.

I'd always been a kid that loved literature, reading, writing - anything to do with words - so music was just a path.

I just always really loved music that was coincidentally from the States.

I like to keep morale up and not take things so seriously all the time. I enjoy life and laughs but I'm serious about the music. Serious about the craft of songwriting.

I am a bit of a granny, I feel older than my years. I like to read rather than go to parties but at the same time my band and I have a lot of fun on tour and can be big kids.

I listen to a lot of artists like Tori Amos, Cherry Glazerr, and Patti Smith, and I kind of wanted to follow in their footsteps, or at least try to be that genre-defining.

It was always quite negative messages on love I was given as a kid.

Connecting with fans online can be the make or break or some artists, and I think that's a bit dangerous.

I write great songs and the mistakes make them even better. No one else could write a Morrissey song.

I write great songs and the mistakes make them even better. No one else could write a Morrissey song.

I can't emphasize enough how much of a writer I am.

I never really put nature into my record, but I think environment is important, and I think environment has an effect on your person.

I like to keep morale up and not take things so seriously all the time. I enjoy life and laughs but I'm serious about the music. Serious about the craft of songwriting.