I know my sound, and I have to be true to who I am as an artist, even though I want be real cool, and make really cool music.

David Bowie is the quintessential English gentleman and, of course, a musical and generational institution. I only played support for him for one night (not a whole tour) but he was incredibly gracious and generous toward me and I've certainly never forgotten it.

You can analyze all you want but you can never explain away the God factor. Sometimes God just decides to breathe on something and it's completely His prerogative.

I've always recognised that I have influence, whether I like it or not, and that I can use it to do something good.

I learnt that music cost something, and that's a good thing. Also, that I should exercise, because I didn't and I got very sick.

The writing and making of each of my albums has been such a different beast each time, so I'm interested in seeing what kind of animal the fourth one turns out to be!

I'm not quite sure where the sponsorship rumour came from... probably because I have been a spokesperson for child sponsorship so people just assumed that was the connection.