I'd Call What I Do Pop Music,

Fame Doesn't Make It Hard To Date, Because I Could Be Seeing Someone Now And No-one Would Know. But If You Go Out With Someone Who's In The Public Eye You're Asking For Trouble. It's Double Intensity, Double Scrutiny. Even If I Just Went On One Date With A Normal Guy, Word Gets Around And That Freaks Me Out. I Don't Like All That Gossipy Stuff.

I Believe That When You Have Fans, They Invest In You Not Just As A Singer But As A Person As Well. It's Not Enough To Just Have Good Songs And A Good Voice.

You Pick Up Loads Of Baggage With Your First Record With Reaction To It From Fans And Critics. So I Went To Ireland By Myself For A Couple Of Weeks With My Guitar. I Read Lots Of Poetry, I Read Patti Smith's Autobiography And Started Words And Phrases And Then Songs Started To Take Shape.

When I Heard Bjork's Debut, That Was When I First Realized That I Could Be A Singer, Even With My Unusual Voice.

I'm Obsessed With The Countryside: Woods, Forests, Fields, Lakes, Mountains. I'm Really Into Folk Music And Folklore. But More So I'm Into Electronic Music. I'm Into Bands That Have Both Aspects, Like Boards Of Canada Is A Perfect Example. You Could Listen To That Type Of Music Running Through A Woods. It's Kind Of What I Wanted To Achieve.