You say we'll soar like two birds through the clouds, but soon you'll cage me on your shelf. I'll never learn to be just me, first by myself.

I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.

I haven't got time for the pain.

The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.

You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new.

We need role models who are going to break the mold.

There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.