I've definitely become more commercially successful. I think everything has changed over the past two years. People seem to take me seriously now as a songwriter for other artists and as an artist, which is funny to me because I always thought I was good. I guess that's the main change, which is pretty interesting.

A great song can make you cry and transport you to another dimension.

I want to have tampons as merch that say ‘Periods are punk.'

Vivienne Westwood really inspires me. I love her punk ethos.

I started writing my own things when I was about 8. I used to try to bully my friends into imitating the Spice Girls on the playground. Then I realized, Oh god, my career's going nowhere, so I looked in the Yellow Pages and phoned up the first cheap studio that I found and started recording.

I don't want to be a pop star. I want to be a nursery-rhyme star!

To be honest I'd just love to keep writing hits for other people... That's kind of my secret dream.