I wanted to create something that was quite edgy and belonged to me. It wasn't about my sexual orientation, because I'm heterosexual. It was saying that appearance is just temporary, and I want to be as strong as a man.

One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us.

Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too.

There needs to be a shift in consciousness; there needs to be an absolute wake-up call before society can actually make the kind of incredibly significant changes that need to happen.

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

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

We're not interested to know the real heroes. We're really more interested in the villains, actually, and they seem to thrive, and it continues to be business as usual.