I maintain that when I finally retire from my career in music, I will go and live back in Wales - when I am an old person, if I live to be an old person. The water I miss, and the air, there's something different about it. And I miss the simple life.

You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.

The very first song I wrote was about a boy that I was obsessed with.

I wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that.

If I've got Writer's Block it generally means that I don't have that much to say or something's not quite connecting. I have had Writer's Block a bunch of times and it's generally because I'm not able to write down what I'm feeling basically. Mostly, I just need to be alone really, or be with someone who can bring that out of me.

The nature of how we are as human beings is that we're much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.

I was quite a weird kid because I didn't like getting presents. I don't know why. I just went for books all the time.