All of this talk of recession offends me. I am delighted that bankers have less money.

Success is absolutely intoxicating. I've seen people behave in ways that seem very far from how they would behave normally.

For most of my life, I've been, ‘Hey, I'm not into it, but I respect your right to believe whatever you want'. But as time goes on, weirdly, I'm growing less liberal. I'm more like, 'No, religion is ruining the world, you need to stop!’

I've always been conscious of the fact that there aren't enough Irish voices on British television compared to the amount of Irish people who live there.

I come from a musical kind of family.

The fame thing has happened very gradually, so I've been kind of lucky.

Put it this way: singing is not my day job.