Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. They're my biggest heroes. I love everything about Leonard Cohen: his lyrics and his voice. He seems like a really clever man, and Bob Dylan does as well. He's just really cool.
It's very fun to be the hunter of the sounds. The hunter of the right energy. And it's not really about if every sound is correct; it's more the energy - if it hits you in some way, it doesn't really matter to me if it's not perfect. I'm still very excited while hunting for songs.
At first, I wasn't really keen on the idea of me being on stage having to sing in front of people.
Music is this divine thing, the closest that we can get to something divine. It's like this instinct we all own, and some of us have found a way to hear that music and write it down and share it with people.
Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don't want my songs to make people sad. It's very important for me that all my songs have some kind of hope or light.
Luckily for me, people don't scream at me that much in my everyday life.
I absolutely adore Christmas.
I usually write lyrics first, and then when I get home or close to any kind of instrument, I usually make a melody for those lyrics.
Metal, I love metal sounds. If I have a stick with me, I just drag it across a fence. And all fences make different sounds, just like people when they laugh.
I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.
I think I have the nicest fans in the world, and I quite like being surrounded by people if we're all feeling the same emotion in the same room.
It's a very strange thing being recognized or looked upon as someone special.
My skin gets so dry and chapped, and the second I get off the plane, I apply so much sunscreen.
I don't know, I feel desperate when I sing. And I look desperate - it feels like I'm singing for my life, which makes me twitch, if that makes sense.
Talent is something that comes from within; it has nothing to do with age.
My age is very insignificant to me. I don't think about it, but the world does. The world likes young people in general.
It's very unnatural to be someone for so many people. But of course it's very nice.
I just wanted to be a songwriter. I did really not like the sound of my own voice.
I'm so happy I discovered early how wonderful music makes me feel.
I'm such an emotional and sensitive person, so it only makes sense that my songs are as well.
