I get so frustrated with all these so-called singer-songwriters coming out and they don't write!

Like a lot of young people growing up in the middle of nowhere, I was desperate to leave my small town behind, but music reconnected me to my roots.

I'm not really that comfortable, to be honest, singing about my darkest moments.

I had a job for a year, working in a high-quality whiskey-and-wine shop.

The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.

When I was growing up, I kept hoping that I wasn't really gay because I wanted to have children. I went through a long, tortured period, so the fact that I have been able to be true to myself and have a family has been the nicest surprise of my adulthood.

I've come from a grounded family and had a good upbringing.

I miss my family all the time.