Do you ever get tired of writing really long answers? It seems hard. Lovely, but hard.
ANNA @ Issue no. 266Do you ever find that you don’t have time to do your Red Hand File because you’ve spent all week writing songs that are starting to sound really good and you get to Sunday and think oh it’s Sunday I can write one today and then you realise oh fuck I have a signing of my children’s book ‘The Little Thing is Sad’ at Dover Street Market today and so you think I’ll write one tomorrow and then you realise that you are in the studio all next week working on the score to a totally brilliant Australian film called The New Boy starring the great Cate Blanchett and so you think fuck it and just grab pretty much any question at random, and just knock out a quick one so to speak. Does that ever happen? Does it?
NICK @ Issue no. 227How do you know when you have written something worthwhile? What is your process?
GORAN @ Issue no. 130You are one of the funniest writers out there. Would you say humour is an important aspect of your writing? Who has inspired your humour?
CHRIS @ Issue no. 75I’m a young writer. Your music has inspired me deeply in terms of not being afraid of throwing my feelings into my texts, but sometimes it is not easy to describe them in words. I guess you learned to do that through books and poems. I wish you could recommend to me your favourite texts so I can learn from them too.
ALEJANDRÁ @ Issue no. 49In your ‘notebook full of words’ do you record pieces of your subconscious? I wonder what your dreams look like and how much they influence the imagery of your writing.
IRINA @ Issue no. 10I write, and a lot of what you’ve said about it in the past really resonates with me, possibly because my dad was a teacher too. I feel the process is like trying to describe something which I can only see imperfectly, or out of the corner of my eye. Did you ever experience that? Also, I hope you record Fireflies.
S. @ Issue no. 3I would love to know how you feel about your writing now. Did it get easier after what seemed to be quite a challenge around “Skeleton Tree”? (I think I remember you saying in “One More Time with Feeling” that you kind of lost your grip on lyric writing for a while). Do you feel like you are changing now as a songwriter, perhaps in the light of the strong communion with fans? How is the process now?
Jakub @ Issue no. 1