I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.

I do promotion when it is necessary, but I always want to get back to the music.

We called the album 'Amarantine' to mean everlasting. Poets use the word to describe an everlasting flower and I loved the image of that.

I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my playing or then I might start to sing it.

I tend to listen to the classical composers: Rachmaninov, Satie.

Fame and success are very different things.

I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.