I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent!

When you cut human beings down to size, we're really quite simple creatures; food, shelter, warmth, light, heat and you build it up from there really until you finally go Gucci shoes or whatever it is or whatever your consumer desires are. All those desires are ultimately, they're about gratification.

Anybody auditions for X-Factor it's because they want to be famous, not because they are artists.

I don't have interns. I don't have a manager. I don't have assistants. I don't have a secretary. I can't figure out Outlook Express. I'm the worst person in the world answering e-mails, and my phone is probably the oldest, most battered phone you can find. So I just talk to people.

I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.

Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.

I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent!