Since I was 16, I've felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.

There are certain songs I cannot hear because they are so personal that it hurts me to listen.

The dark covers me and I cannot run now.

No. No. I don't listen to anyone except my ... inner child anyway. If someone had said to me, Amy, lose a stone which they wouldn't - I don't think I would have listened anyway.

Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take.

Having listened to great songwriters like James Taylor and Carole King, I felt there was nothing new that was coming out that really represented me and the way I felt. So I started writing my own stuff.

I never went round to loads of managers saying 'this is what I have, this is my product and I'm going to be famous so you'd better sign me up.' They came to me.