I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.

If I ever have any back-up dancers, I want the penguins from Madagascar.

My uncle always said, ‘Hurry slowly.’ I guess, it means, have the intensity of love but don’t rush into it. Have the full feeling but take it slow. Ease into it.

Country music is some of the best-written music in the world, so yeah, one day, I would keep my mind open to doing a country record.

You kind of half-prepare a speech in your head, and then you get up there and then you end up saying nothing that was in your head before you went up there. It's a very weird thing. I never do award speeches too well.

I think YouTube has destroyed the genre barrier. People can be into Justin Bieber and Eminem at the same time. It's a good thing.

Everyone knows almost everything about me. I make it very clear that I'm cool with people knowing all my personal life through my songs.