If you play an instrument, it makes you a better singer. The more you play, the better you sing, the more you sing, the better you play.

Here in England, everyone's a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.

I'm lucky because I do get to fly first-class now.

I've always written poetry but I didn't realise it was a therapy for me until I was maybe 15. That's when my singing started to come together as well because I was listening to so much jazz. What I love I will always embrace.

Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.

I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.

I don't care what people think about me. Never did, never will. Life is too short to be worrying about that shit.