With my music, I can express myself so much. A lot of the fans can sense that I'm relating to them something that's quite personal.

Music is like a mirror in front of you. You're exposing everything, but surely that's better than suppressing. You have to dig deep and that can be hard for anybody, no matter what profession. I feel that I need to actually push myself to the limit to feel happy with the end result.

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

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.

The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy.

There is no formula to it because writing every song, for me, is a little journey. The first note has to lift you and make you go, 'What's this?' You play C, but why is it that one day it leads to G and it didn't yesterday? I don't know. It's everything. It's the walk you take in the morning, it's the night before, the meeting with people, landscapes, the chats, all of that evolves in some way into melody, but I'm not sure how it's going to happen. I'm dealing with the unknown all the time and that is exciting.

I don't have pets, I have two guard dogs; and I don't do my own shopping; it's a security thing.