I want people to understand me as a person with views, not just performing songs.

I find beauty in a very independent state. It lives quietly. It's there to be discovered.

I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that.

I like where I live here, in London.

I'm not a risk taker physically. I just have no interest in swinging myself off a mountaintop or parachute gliding or skiing down a totally vertical drop. These things don't interest me in the slightest, but I get so caught up in the color or the texture of the sounds of something. That's so funny to me.

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.