My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.

I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.

I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.

I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have ever done to editing them is just cutting out a verse, but never rewriting lyrics.

What others call magic realism is normal and an everyday thing to me.

I wrote the songs pretty much on a guitar by myself, like normal. This time, though, I was writing with the live shows in mind.