I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.

I'm an only child, you know, originally. I'm not a child anymore, but I certainly tend to spend a lot of time on my own.

As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.

Whatever you do, you do out of a passion.

Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

Each individual is as individual as their fingerprints, and I think that's extraordinary.