I Think Sensitive Is The Wrong Description Of Me. I'm British, Actually, So Quite Bad At Expressing Myself In Conversation, As Any Ex-girlfriend Will Tell You. I'm Probably Emotionally Stunted.
I'm More Critical Of My Songwriting Than Anybody, But I've Worked Really Hard In The Last Five To 10 Years To Improve. I Didn't Take It All That Seriously When I Started. It Was A Little Bit Of A Stigma To Being A Songwriter Or A Folkie Back Then. I Did A Lot Of Send-ups Of Sensitive Singer-songwriter Stuff When I Was Starting Out, Which Limited My Development As A Songwriter In A Way. I Wasn't Really Fully Given License To Explore That Until The Mid-90s. I'm Still Working On It; I'm A Little Bit Of A Late Bloomer.
Perhaps The Attempt To Achieve Grace By Identification With The Animals Was The Most Sensitive Thing Which Was Tried In The Whole Bloody History Of Religion .
I Was Being An Artist, Being Sensitive And Technical As Artists Are. I'm Sure Leonardo Da Vinci Did That. Artists Don't Always Feel The Same As Others Feel About Their Work.
I'm Such An Incredibly, Stupidly Sensitive Person That Everything That Happens To Me, I Experience It Really Intensely. I Feel Everything Very Deeply. And When You Feel Things Deeply And You Think About Things A Lot And You Think About How You Feel, You Learn A Lot About Yourself. And When You Know Yourself, You Know Life.
