I've always appreciated working with people I have chemistry with, who are friends, and where you feel that the work is growing while you are getting to know each other better.

I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.

I've never done an album like this. With Biophilia, I was being like Kofi Annan - I had to be the pacifist to try to unite the impossible. Maybe that was a strange, personal job between me and myself, to show how overreaching I was being as a woman. The only way I could express that was by comparing it to the universe.

I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.

I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.

I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.

i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.