Songwriters such as Alanis Morissette write about the constant balance of contradictions, and that's something I adhere to in my life and work.

Audiences in the U.S. can sometimes be a lot less refined. If they like something, they tend to express it more loudly.

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.

As a songwriter, I've got a lot of facets, so to speak. When you come to a live show, you get a better sense of that, because you'll see me performing a piano ballad and some acoustic songs and some not acoustic songs, all in the same set.

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

I'd gig three to five times a week while I was doing my A-levels. I'd always come in with a runny nose 'cause I was always ill and run-down. But I just pushed through.

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

I never expected I was going to travel the world playing gigs with my band and best friends. I have surpassed any dreams I had.

My grandparents divorced, both of them, and then my mum and dad did. So it's like, divorce, divorce, divorce.

But when I was 12 or 13, I found the acoustic guitar and got into guitar music ultimately, like Black Motorcycle Club, obviously Neil Young, Crosby, Stills and Nash.

I think with how society makes me feel like I should grasp onto the inner strength of me being a woman, and I felt like it was all just very much married into what I'm listening to, what I'm writing, how I'm feeling.

I love playing live, and doing big TV shows are exciting.

A big part of the reason that I make music is that I want to be a part of people's memories - you're there; you're present in someone's life.

Songwriting really kicked in with the guitar. I was going through a lot as a kid. There had been a lot of transitions in my family. So it just became a total therapy, like most artists.

No artist is one-dimensional. I get the sense that if I push myself now and if I create a million different-sounding songs - I just feel that's going to be such a set-up for my ability in the future.

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

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

I don't see any reason why young women shouldn't relate to me and have that connection with my music.

There's not point in doing anything without conviction.

If you write your own lyrics now, and those are the main focus in the EP... people tend to approach it as Americana, which is wild. That's what leads people to it. But it's just whatever people want; as long as they like the music.

I always say the diversity, and culture is the one thing I love the most about the U.S. How you can travel across one borderline and you end up with this whole new set of people that I find super-interesting and great on tour.

I'm always up for new places and new locations… I think it's the funnest part about the job.

I always try to be myself, be it a festival crowd or my own crowd.

I make sure that everyone on the team and in my band really love music. They live for music, and it's our whole life, and we choose it to be so.

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'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 always respected country music for its narrative and how it's so solid, you can get the picture in your mind.

I don't really get inspired by landscapes that much, it's all people.

My focus on everything is songwriting, so I write all of my stuff by myself.

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

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