When I'm writing obviously I have all the nostalgia in the world, I have all the emotion in the world, but then when I actually perform, I need to just perform it, and that's it. I do retain like a little bit of it because I have to, I sing and perform the songs so I have to - it's a performance of the songs - but I just have to get the right balance.

I would like to be mates with Richard Branson because I've hung out with him and he is just the loveliest person and obviously a very rich guy and has a lot of stuff going on, but he's actually a really, really sound person, and he's really positive and he's got a really good energy, so I'd like to hang out with him a bit more.

My fans are so funny, they make me laugh so much. I've got some really, really, funny, clever fans.

The only really safe thing to do is to write a diary of where you've been, what time you went to bed, what you ate. If I wrote honestly about everything I think it'd be a disaster. It would cause a lot of trouble.

I believe in the moment of things and fate and things happening for a reason, so I write things down and I trust it.

I wish I could have hung out with Patti Smith in the seventies, and also have some crazy times.

Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.