People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don't understand why they find me so annoying but they do. It is pity, but that is how it is.

But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.

Being myself is what got me to where I am.

I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.

I've always prided myself on being myself and trying to stick true to who I am and how I was raised.

I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.