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

I never want to know the range of my voice. It has to be impulsive, and I don't want to kill the mystery.

I was very aware when I went to the Academy Awards that it would probably be my first and last time. So I thought my input should really be about fertility, and I thought I'd bring some eggs.

I've written arrangements for choirs and strings in the past, but I usually write music with my voice or a keyboard and then I'll get someone who is good at writing scores to write it out. Or, if I have the luxury of time, I will go in a room and hear the people perform and then change it through what I hear, not on paper. I can read music OK, but I probably rebelled a little - music changes into something else when you read it.

Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.

It takes a long time to fully become who you are.

I thought I could organise freedom/How Scandinavian of me.