I think a bit of mystery is good, and I used to feel like an eccentric person pretending to be normal. But I am actually just a normal person seeming eccentric, by what I'm putting myself through.
I don't really like to talk about what my songs are about.
Just like using an instrument, a song calls for different things.
When it comes to a specific sound, I don't feel like there's something I need to worry about. I'd much rather do something creative and credible. Like, 'Who am I? What am I trying to say? What do I stand for?' I stand for all of it, because I feel all of it, like everybody.
I think about it as not so much 'I need to get it out of me,' it's not that my thoughts are poison, I just want to write good music.
All I ever wanted to do was to do something interesting.
You should see my stepdad's face when he's lifting something. It's the scariest thing I've ever seen! So you can't expect, just because I'm a potentially pretty person, that I won't allow myself to try out emotional states that might make me look ugly to some people.
I've always been, like a lot of people, driven by fear. Always focusing on the fire on the rope, as opposed to what the rope is coming from.
I spend... too much time... in my own head.
I want to be well enough to enjoy the things I've made.
It's not a secret that I'm, like, 12 different people rolled into one. Like a lot of people are.
I'm optimistic but I'm also not stupid.
If you want to do this, you've got to last. You've got to be well enough to carry your ideas. I'm not saying I've got great ideas, but if I do I need to be able to deliver them.
Wales is a lot like New Zealand.
My family used to put on a small folk festival.
It was definitely a really lovely thing for me, doing 'Jools.'
I'm actually quite a shy person and it's becoming clearer to me. Sometimes I would like to disappear, maybe only for an hour.
I'm one of those people who's always changing. There's nothing wrong with it but it means I am a hard person to hold onto, I guess.
I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.
I don't think about why I do what I do, or why I started doing what I do, because I'm so obsessed with doing it right now, and what it means to me right now.
