I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16 I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.

I kind of like the way that I came up as an artist. I like experimenting.

I do like my hair. It took a while to come around to the fact that it was quite a unique value point.

I'll be drunk again to feel a little love.

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.

Emil's [Nava], the video director. Originally, I was meant to do all the stuff that the puppet was doing. I just wasn't that comfortable with doing it, so he had a puppet made.

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.